Bruno de Stabenrath is 41 years old. He has received training as a musician, singer and comedian at the Conservatoire of St-Germain-en-Laye. He has played in productions directed by Francois Truffaut and Michel Lang among others before founding an aristo rock group, Borsalino, in the eighties. He has now turned to full time writing and Cavalcade is his first book.