Single to double quotes

I'm looking for a GREP (or maybe a script) which can change the single quotes to double quotes, but taking into account that French (and Dutch) have a lot of single quotes that don't have to be converted (collega's; l'enfant;d'été...). The idea is that some people use the single quotes in stead of the double ones ('lorem ipsum daedalus inter e d'été', etc). the quote before lorem has to be changed, not the ' after the letter d, and the ' after été has to be changed too.
Any suggestions?

This seems to work:
'(?![\l\u])|(?<![\l\u])'
For my test, I turned all found items to red.

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