From the center of Paris, the lawyer, writer and academician, Jean-Denis Bredin talks about the places that have considered his preferred environment namely the Pont des Arts, the Pont Neuf, the Palais de justice and the Institut de France where he was elected to the French Academy in 1989.
Lawyer, writer and academician, Jean-Denis Bredin is questioned by Jacques Chancel on television and especially on the word of shy people. Author of a 1985 report on television, the guest emphasises the risk that this medium, an entertainment tool but also a culture for a wide audience, could be a potential carrier of mediocrity for insufficiently protected viewers.
A lawyer, writer and academician, Jean-Denis Bredin is questioned by Jacques Chancel on the issue of eloquence on television, particularly for political leaders.
Jean-Denis Bredin, lawyer and professor, but also vice-president of the Left Radical Movement (MRG), explains why he chose the left and more particularly the party of radicals.
Jean-Denis Bredin, lawyer, professor, writer and academician, says he is confident, as the year 2000 approaches, in the new millennium that is looming, promise of freedom with the end of destructive ideologies.
Jean-Denis Bredin, lawyer, professor and writer, gives his reception speech at the Académie française on his birthday. Elected to the chair of Marguerite Yourcenar, he was received by Pierre Moinot.
Jean-Denis Bredin talks about his career as a lawyer, less "brilliant" than that of his colleague and friend Robert Badinter, who did not plead in major criminal cases.
Jean-Denis Bredin, lawyer and professor, talks about his book, "A Culprit", and evokes his haunting of the injustice that led him previously to write about the Dreyfus case.