Pierre Bénard (1898 - 1946) is a journalist French.

Born in 1898 from a former clerk of solicitor. He begins journalism in the Twenties in Work, where he holds the legal heading, and with Good evening . Author of merry novels and many forewords for works on legal reality, it also made great report for various weekly magazines of which Gringoire (it moves away from there in 1934).

He enters to the Canard connected in 1923, and becomes his editor association in 1936. He is opposed at that time to Jean Galtier-Boissière, on the subject of the military intervention of France in Spain.

During the Second world war, it takes part at the beginning of 1944, in the clandestine newspaper Défense of France. He wrote in addition in Combat and the French Letters clandestine of the not signed articles but with the identifiable style, by puns, witty remarks and ceaseless returns to the line.

He finds the direction of the drafting of the weekly magazine to the Release, but dies a little later the December 22nd 1946.