by Jean-Denis Bredin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246730316
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«Trop bien élevé» is the memoir by Jean-Denis Bredin, published by Grasset in paperback (133 pages, in French).
Jean-Denis Bredin evokes his childhood and adolescence in a bourgeois family, in France before 1939, raised to be a too-correct and solitary child: asking permission, apologizing for being in the way, and always smiling. The book reconstructs the feelings, mentalities, and rites of that social class, and portrays his loved ones.
For readers of memoirs and French autobiographical narrative, interested in bourgeois education in the first half of the twentieth century.
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.
