Paris (AFP)
Renowned lawyer and writer Jean-Denis Bredin, who was a teacher and academician, died at the age of 92, the President of the Bar of Paris, Olivier Cousi, announced on Wednesday.
"Jean-Denis Bredin has passed away. He was one of our most brilliant colleagues with a feather unlike any other which had brought him to the French Academy", greeted Olivier Cousi, on Twitter.
The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, praised his memory, in a tweet: "A very great figure of the French bar has just died. He will have marked his time with his talent and the many fights he has conducted ".
Father of the former socialist minister Frédérique Bredin, academician since 1989, Jean-Denis Bredin has signed some twenty historico-judicial works, including a reference book ("The Affair", 1983) on Alfred Dreyfus, one of the most famous victims of judicial error in the history of France.
Born in Paris in 1929, he had taught at the Faculty of Law of Rennes, Lille, the University of Paris-Dauphine then, from 1971, at Paris I before being appointed Professor Emeritus.
A lawyer at the Paris bar from the 1950s, he joined forces with Robert Badinter in 1965 to found a business firm that would become one of the most famous in the country.
His fictions, short stories and essays, had testified to his struggles.
His first novel, "Un guilty" (1985), was the account of a miscarriage of justice.
He had also denounced the judicial drifts in "Un tribunal au garde à-vous" (2002, on the trial of Pierre Mendès-France in 1941), or in "L'infamie" (2012, on the trial of Riom in 1942) brought by Vichy to Léon Blum and others).
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