They called themselves "noir" (black) for the color of mourning (because their first concert was planned to be also their last) and for anarchy and "Bérurier" after the character from the novels of Frédéric Dard.
The style is very influenced by the French writer Céline but is also full of French slang and new words coined by the author himself (to the point of publishing a specific San-Antonio Dictionnary), which makes it quite difficult for non-native speakers.
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Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard, June 29, 1921 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère - June 6, 2000 in Switzerland) was a French writer and author of the San-Antonio series.
Frédéric Chopin | Frederic Rzewski | Frederic Remington | Frédéric Joliot-Curie | George Frederic Watts | Frédéric Artru | Frederic William Maitland | Frederic Hymen Cowen | Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas | Frederic Louis Norden | Frédéric Belaubre | Frédéric Beigbeder | Frederic Edwin Church | Frédéric de Coninck | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | Dard | Frederic Weatherly | Frederic Township, Michigan | Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford | Frederic Reynolds | Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt | Frédéric Passy | Frederic Fox | Frédéric Courant | Frederic Austin | Sir Frederic Osborn School | Harold Frederic | Frederic Yates | Frederic William Henry Myers | Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford |