Books By Paul Berna - Author

Jean-Marie-Edmond Sabran, best known by his pseudonym Paul Berna, was a French writer whose children's books were also published in Britain and the United States. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked on a suburban newspaper.

His most famous book, Le Cheval sans tête, usually known in English as A Hundred Million Francs, was published in 1955. It concerns the adventures of a gang of street urchins from the slums of Paris whose plaything, a headless horse on wheels, is used as a hiding-place by train robbers. It has been translated into several languages, enjoying great success in Britain and the United States. In 1963, the Disney Studios in Britain filmed the book as The Horse Without a Head: The 100,000,000 Franc Train Robbery, scripted by T. E. B. Clarke and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Herbert Lom.