Jean-Jacques Fiechter

Jean-Jacques Fiechter (born May 25, 1927 in Alexandria , Egypt ) is a Swiss historian and writer .

Fiechter came from a Swiss family and was born in Egypt.

He successfully completed his history studies with a doctorate and then worked for many years as a historian. One focus of his work was the French Revolution, its surroundings and its effects.

After his successful debut as a writer, he and his family settled down as a freelance writer near Geneva .

In 1994 he won the Grand prix de littérature policière for his novel Tiré à part (German manuscript resulting in death ).

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

• Faussaires d'Egypte . Flammarion, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-0812-2088-1 .
• Faux et faussaires en art Egyptia . Julliard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-260-01131-4 .
• Le moisson des dieux. La constitution des grandes collections égyptiennes, 1815–1830 . Julliard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-260-01131-4 .
• Le socialisme français. De l'affaire Dreyfus à la grande guerre . Droz, Geneva 1965.

Fiction

• Baron Peter Viktor von Besenval (1721–1791). A Solothurn man at the court of Versailles ("Le baron Pierre-Victor de Besenval"). Rothus-Verlag, Solothurn 1994, ISBN 3-9520410-1-7 (together with Andreas Fankhauser).
• Manuscript resulting in death (“Tiré à part”). Elster-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-89151-212-0 .
• Mykérinos . Le dieu englouti . Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7068-1488-8 .
• The lost Lorrain ("L'ombre au tableau"). Elster-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-89151-267-8 .