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Jean-Denis Bredin
Date of birth
17 May 1929
98 years ago at Paris, France

Jean-Denis Bredin

Jean-Denis Bredin (born Jean-Denis Hirsch: 17 May 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction works, with a particular focus on recent and contemporary history. On 15 June 1989, he was elected to membership of the Académie Française, becoming the twentieth occupant of seat 3, which had been vacated through the death of Marguerite Yourcenar. His daughter, Frédérique Bredin, served between 2013 and 2019 as President of the French National Center of Cinematography and the moving image.

Biography

Bredin died on 1 September 2021 aged 92.

Source: Article "Jean-Denis Bredin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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