by Jean-Denis Bredin · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070703845
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«Un coupable» is the novel by Jean-Denis Bredin, published in 1985 by Gallimard in paperback (146 pages, in French).
The novel recounts the story of Ali-François Caillou, a law student with a Breton father and an Algerian mother, arrested at a pacifist demonstration and accused of violence against an officer. The work examines the workings of the judicial machinery and its effects on an innocent man.
The work belongs to Gallimard's nrf collection.
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.
