Pierre Daninos

Pierre Daninos (26 May 1913 – 7 January 2005) was a French writer and humorist. Daninos was born in Paris. He wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of comparisons between French and British society. Daninos was also the author…