WRITER

Jean-Denis Bredin

1929 - 2021

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Denis Bredin has received more than 42,879 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Denis Bredin is the 5,953rd most popular writer (down from 3,268th in 2019), the 5,003rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,255th in 2019) and the 636th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 43k

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  • 44.15

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dreyfus, un innocent
Antisemitism, Biography, History
2006
Un enfant sage
1990
Battements de coeur
1991
Labsence
1986
L' affaire
Antisemitism, Antisémitisme, Histoire
1983
Affaire
Antisemitism, History, Politics and government
1986

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Denis Bredin ranks 5,953 out of 7,302. Before him are Arvo Valton, Álvaro Pombo, Nísia Floresta, Tomoji Abe, György Bessenyei, and Leon Kruczkowski. After him are Árpád Tóth, Giannina Braschi, Josipina Turnograjska, Jeroen Brouwers, José Jiménez Lozano, and François Nourissier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jean-Denis Bredin ranks 473. Before him are Willy Kernen, Ken Henry, Clyde Lovellette, Toimi Alatalo, Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, and Benny Andersen. After him are Lyubov Kozyreva, Kiichirō Furukawa, Boris Nikolov, LaVern Baker, Gheorghe Fiat, and Michel Knuysen. Among people deceased in 2021, Jean-Denis Bredin ranks 540. Before him are Vladimir Kiselyov, Virgil Abloh, Dorothy Manley, Julie Strain, Udo Zimmermann, and Aleksandr Rogozhkin. After him are Enrique Chazarreta, Vicente Cantatore, Lester Bird, Jonathan Penrose, Ray Kennedy, and Vyacheslav Vedenin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Denis Bredin ranks 5,003 out of 6,770. Before him are Clément Lenglet (1995), François Dupeyron (1950), Michel Bonnevie (1921), Jean-François Domergue (1957), Pierre Morel (1964), and François Gagnepain (1866). After him are Léo Lacroix (1937), François Nourissier (1927), Louis Hostin (1908), Gaël Clichy (1985), Christian Wolff (1934), and Jacques Pollet (1922).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Denis Bredin ranks 636. Before him are Patrick Rambaud (1946), Lydie Salvayre (1948), Samuel Benchetrit (1973), René Boylesve (1867), Philippe Delerm (1950), and Claude Esteban (1935). After him are François Nourissier (1927), Jean Dutourd (1920), Charles Le Goffic (1863), René Benjamin (1885), Danièle Sallenave (1940), and Cyril Collard (1957).

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