Éric Deschodt
Éric Deschodt (born 30 March 1937) is a French journalist, writer and translator. He wrote police novels written in collaboration under the pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier. Biography. Éric Deschodt was Anne-Marie Deschodt's brother. After graduating from high school and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, he became a journalist for Radio France, then worked in various fields: agricultural machinery salesman, painting representative, art publisher, fish farmer in Camargue. He eventually returned to journalism and worked successively for several publications, including "Jours de France", "Valeurs actuelles" and "Le Figaro". In collaboration with Christian Charrière, and under the  pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier, he published "Le Saut de l'ange" (1968), a detective novel that won that year's Prix du Quai des Orfèvres and was adapted under the in cinema by Yves Boisset in 1971. This novel had a sequel, "L'Ange du paradis", published in 1969. In 1977, Deschodt used the same pseudonym to write the thriller "Terreur à Nantes", in collaboration with Philippe Heduy. Alone, Éric Deschodt published essays on French aviation and cigar making under his patronym, ten or so novels, including a detective novel, and biographies of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Octave Mirbeau, André Gide, Agrippa  d'Aubigné, Gustave Eiffel and Attila. He also wrote translations, including "Ceux de Falesa" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Mickey Spillane's detective novels.