A Hundred Million Francs

Paul Berna (real name Jean Sabran) was born in 1908 in Hyres, France. He was a journalist and writer in the 1930s, and from 1952 wrote children's books under the pseudonym Paul Berna. A Hundred Million Francs, which became his most famous book, was adapted into a film by Walt Disney, called The Horse without a Head. He was married with two sons. He died in Paris in 1994.