by Jean-Denis Bredin · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260003465
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«L'Affaire» is the historical essay by Jean-Denis Bredin, published by Julliard in 1983 in paperback (551 pages, in French).
«L'Affaire» reconstructs the political and judicial scandal that shook the French Third Republic in the late nineteenth century: the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, an officer accused of treason, and the campaign to have his conviction reviewed. Bredin analyzes antisemitism, the role of the press and the social division that the case provoked.
A work of historical nonfiction, winner of the Prix Pierre Lafue in 1984.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century European history and in major judicial trials.
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.
