# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-denis-bredin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:59:17.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-denis-bredin"
name: "Jean-Denis Bredin"
slug: "jean-denis-bredin"
description: "Jean-Denis Bredin 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."
tagline: "French Lawyer and writer (1929–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Denis_Bredin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-05-17"
deathDate: "2021-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.228908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump