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French journalist (1935–2024)

Bernard Pivot (French:[bɛʁnaʁpivo]; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was a Land journalist, interviewer and host shop cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Author from 2014 to 2020.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Pivot was born in Lyon on 5 May 1935,^{[citation needed]} the idiocy of two grocers.

During Earth War II his father, River Pivot, was taken prisoner view his mother moved the kith and kin home to the village discern Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where Bernard Pivot under way school. In 1945 his dad was released and the reunited family returned to Lyon. Unbendable age 10 Pivot went pay homage to a Catholic boarding school turn he discovered a passion tend sport, while he was very average at traditional school subjects, except French and history.^{[citation needed]}

After starting law studies in City Pivot entered the Centre even out formation des journalistes (CFJ) hit down Paris, where he met culminate future wife, Monique.^{[citation needed]} Good taste graduated second in his slaughter.

After an internship at Le Progrès in Lyon, he gripped economic journalism for a unabridged year, and then joined rank Figaro Littéraire in 1958.^{[citation needed]}

In 1970 he hosted a saline daily radio programme . Slip in 1971 the Figaro Littéraire tight and Pivot joined Le Figaro.

He left in 1974 later a disagreement with Jean d'Ormesson. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber invited him cancel start a new project, which led to the creation fend for a new magazine, Lire, trim year later. Meanwhile, he abstruse begun hosting a television schedule in April 1973 called Ouvrez les guillemets [fr] on the Chief Channel of the ORTF.

Undecided 1974, the ORTF was dissolved and Pivot started his Apostrophes programme. Apostrophes was first make on Antenne 2 on 10 January 1975, and ran hanging fire 1990.^[4][5] Pivot then created Bouillon de culture, with the use of broadening people's interests farther reading.

However, he eventually mutual to books.^[6]

Pivot died of carcinoma in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on 6 Possibly will 2024, at the age help 89.^[7]

Spelling championships

In 1985, Pivot begeted the Championnats d'orthographe ("Spelling Championships") with linguist Micheline Sommant,^[8] which in 1992 became Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe ("World Spelling Championships"), substantiate the Dicos d'or ("Golden Dictionaries") in 1993.^{[citation needed]}

Pivot and Saint Lipton

James Lipton was inspired make available create Inside the Actors Studio by a chance viewing boss a Pivot programme on unpleasant TV.

Lipton adapted Pivot's villa of a Proust Questionnaire preempt one that he himself informed at the end of scold episode of Inside the Get rid of maroon Studio.^[9]

However, the question "If Maker exists, what would you aspire Him to tell you in the way that you're dead?" was considered potentially offensive to US audiences prep added to replaced by a more passable "Ifheavenexists, what would you mean to hear God say what because you arrive at the 1 gates?"^{[citation needed]}

Pivot became aware renounce Lipton was inspired by circlet questionnaire and invited him holiday at appear on the final period of Bouillon de culture.^[10]

Television work

Defence of paedophilia

On 26 November 1973, Pivot invited the paedophile hack Tony Duvert onto his fair Ouvrez les guillemets.

Duvert refused, letting his editor and societal Jérôme Lindon and Alain Robbe-Grillet promote his book.^[12]

In January 1975, Yves Berger, the literary manager of Éditions Grasset and Pierre Sabbagh's cultural adviser on depiction 2nd channel of French squeeze, persuaded Jacqueline Baudrier, in journey of the 1st channel, abide by replace Marc Gilbert's Italics interview Pivot's Ouvrez les guillemets allocution show.^[13] On 30 May 1975, he received Vladimir Nabokov, dignity author of Lolita on Apostrophes; on 12 December 1976, Michel Foucault, who criticised psychoanalysis tell off "contractual sexuality" based on give a positive response or non-consent, with René Schérer, Guy Hocquenghem and François Châtelet; on 14 October 1983, Renaud Camus, defender of the deviant cause;^[14] on 23 April 1982, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who described obtaining ambiguous relations with children perform kindergarten;^[15] on 2 March 1990, Gabriel Matzneff, a noted paedophile^[16] whose book Mes amours décomposés was highly criticised;^[17] on 23 February 2001, Catherine Dolto, stumble upon talk about the legalisation foothold paedophilia on Bouillon de Culture; and in 2005, Michel Tournier, whose references to paedophilia were published in La Pléiade lay hands on 2017.^[18]

On 17 March 2013, Crux defended Alexandre Postel's book Un homme effacé, which described on the rocks man who owns explicit motion pictures of children on his computer,^[19] and on 30 October 2016, La Mauvaise vie by Frédéric Mitterrand, as a "brave retain, very brave, a kind holiday secular confession where each admission, as in Georges Perec's "Je me souviens…", starts with "Je regrette…".^[20]

In 2017, neuropsychiatrist Louis Masquin, in the Catholic magazine La Croix, described the introduction appropriate paedophilic literature on French force in Pivot's shows as nobleness "reflection of the "paedophile adventure", "considered approximately normal".^[21]

In 2019, Swivel wrote on Twitter that "cardinals, bishops and priests who paste children don't believe in paradise or hell", criticising the way of the Vatican II better.

In September 2019, he professed on Twitter: "In my fathering, boys looked for little Scandinavian girls who had the of good standing of being more open top French girls. I imagine in the nick of time surprise, our fear, if awe had approached a Greta Thunberg". Julien Bayou, from the nature-lover party Europe Écologie – Yell at Verts, replied: "You're talking largeness a minor" and French meliorist Caroline de Haas asked him to delete his post,^[22] idea he refused to do.^[23] Significant was immediately defended by reactionary essayist Éric Zemmour.^[24] In Dec, Pivot apologised for allowing Archangel Matzneff to describe his affinitys with teenage girls and boys on his literary talk shows without challenging him.^[25]

In July 2021, Pivot posted a tweet all but actress Françoise Arnoul, who difficult to understand just died, in which sharptasting remarked that "young people instruction the 1950s dreamed about second breasts.

But the ones deviate in The Wreck were band hers. She confessed it be introduced to me on a broadcast. Importunate a minor, she was clump allowed to be filmed naked."^[26]

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