by Jean-Denis Bredin · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213602806
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«Une singulière famille» is the family biography by Jean-Denis Bredin, published by Fayard in paperback (453 pages, in French).
It portrays Jacques Necker, minister of Louis XVI; Suzanne Necker, associated with literary salons; and Germaine de Staël, a writer. The work reconstructs the intellectual and social climate of 18th-century France and analyses this family's influence on the public life of its time.
Subtitle: Jacques Necker, Suzanne Necker et Germaine de Staël. Published in 1999, includes bibliographical references (pp. 421-433) and index.
Recommended for readers of historical biographies and of the French Enlightenment; it will also interest those studying the family environment in the Ancien Régime.
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.
