 On "Le Bercail", he worked for the first time with the actress Marcelle Pradot who subsequently appeared in most of his silent films and whom he married in 1923.Between 1919 and 1922, L'Herbier made six films for Gaumont, several in their "Série Pax", and three of these stood out as major achievements of his period in silent films.He adapted a story by Balzac for "L'Homme du large" (1920), set and filmed on the Brittany coast.