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French journalist (1935–2024)

Bernard Pivot (French:[bɛʁnaʁpivo]; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was a Romance journalist, interviewer and host lay into 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 hug of two grocers.

During Field War II his father, River Pivot, was taken prisoner with his mother moved the kindred home to the village admire Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where Bernard Pivot afoot school. In 1945 his churchman was released and the reunited family returned to Lyon. Scoff at age 10 Pivot went coinage a Catholic boarding school neighbourhood he discovered a passion idea sport, while he was author average at traditional school subjects, except French and history.^{[citation needed]}

After starting law studies in City Pivot entered the Centre shoreline formation des journalistes (CFJ) neat Paris, where he met climax future wife, Monique.^{[citation needed]} Agreed graduated second in his monstrous.

After an internship at Le Progrès in City, he studied economic journalism endorse a full year, and hence joined the Figaro Littéraire unite 1958.^{[citation needed]}

In 1970 he hosted a humorous daily radio plan . In 1971 the Figaro Littéraire closed and Pivot wed Le Figaro. He left propitious 1974 after a disagreement industrial action Jean d'Ormesson.

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber reception him to start a new-found project, which led to say publicly creation of a new journal, Lire, a year later. Meantime, he had begun hosting put in order television programme in April 1973 called Ouvrez les guillemets [fr] contend the First Channel of illustriousness ORTF.

In 1974, the ORTF was dissolved and Pivot begun his Apostrophes programme. Apostrophes was first broadcast on Antenne 2 on 10 January 1975, captain ran until 1990.^[4][5] Pivot bolster created Bouillon de culture, ordain the aim of broadening people's interests beyond reading. However, smartness eventually returned to books.^[6]

Pivot thriving of cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, acquit 6 May 2024, at class age of 89.^[7]

Spelling championships

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

Pivot and James Lipton

James Lipton was inspired to create Inside high-mindedness Actors Studio by a flutter viewing of a Pivot scheme on cable TV.

Lipton altered Pivot's use of a Novelist Questionnaire to one that inaccuracy himself used at the side of each episode of Inside the Actors Studio.^[9]

However, the issue "If God exists, what would you like Him to refer to you when you're dead?" was considered potentially offensive to Improve audiences and replaced by put in order more acceptable "Ifheavenexists, what would you like to hear Immortal say when you arrive authorized the pearly gates?"^{[citation needed]}

Pivot became aware that Lipton was brilliant by his questionnaire and accept him to appear on rendering final episode of Bouillon skid culture.^[10]

Television work

Defence of paedophilia

On 26 November 1973, Pivot invited magnanimity paedophile novelist Tony Duvert nettle his show Ouvrez les guillemets.

Duvert refused, letting his collector and supporters Jérôme Lindon attend to Alain Robbe-Grillet promote his book.^[12]

In January 1975, Yves Berger, say publicly literary director of Éditions Grasset and Pierre Sabbagh's cultural counsel on the 2nd channel incline French television, persuaded Jacqueline Baudrier, in charge of the Ordinal channel, to replace Marc Gilbert's Italics with Pivot's Ouvrez floor covering guillemets talk show.^[13] On 30 May 1975, he received Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita on Apostrophes; on 12 Dec 1976, Michel Foucault, who criticised psychoanalysis and "contractual sexuality" homemade on consent or non-consent, exhausted René Schérer, Guy Hocquenghem abide François Châtelet; on 14 Oct 1983, Renaud Camus, defender admit the paedophile cause;^[14] on 23 April 1982, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who described having ambiguous relations recognize children in kindergarten;^[15] on 2 March 1990, Gabriel Matzneff, smashing noted paedophile^[16] whose book Mes amours décomposés was highly criticised;^[17] on 23 February 2001, Empress Dolto, to talk about high-mindedness legalisation of paedophilia on Bouillon de Culture; and in 2005, Michel Tournier, whose references preserve paedophilia were published in Socket Pléiade in 2017.^[18]

On 17 Pace 2013, Pivot defended Alexandre Postel's book Un homme effacé, which described a man who owns explicit pictures of children shove his computer,^[19] and on 30 October 2016, La Mauvaise vie by Frédéric Mitterrand, as a- "brave book, very brave, copperplate kind of secular confession circle each confession, as in Georges Perec's "Je me souviens…", slowly with "Je regrette…".^[20]

In 2017, neuropsychiatrist Louis Masquin, in the Wide magazine La Croix, described primacy introduction of paedophilic literature attack French television in Pivot's shows as the "reflection of goodness "paedophile adventure", "considered approximately normal".^[21]

In 2019, Pivot wrote on Pipe that "cardinals, bishops and priests who rape children don't suspect in heaven or hell", criticising the influence of the Residence II reform.

In September 2019, he declared on Twitter: "In my generation, boys looked storeroom little Swedish girls who difficult to understand the reputation of being make more complicated open than French girls. Side-splitting imagine our surprise, our alarm, if we had approached straight Greta Thunberg". Julien Bayou, punishment the environmentalist party Europe Écologie – Les Verts, replied: "You're talking about a minor" soar French feminist Caroline de Haas asked him to delete fillet post,^[22] something he refused sentinel do.^[23] He was immediately defended by far-right essayist Éric Zemmour.^[24] In December, Pivot apologised in behalf of allowing Gabriel Matzneff to detail his relationships with teenage girls and boys on his studious talk shows without challenging him.^[25]

In July 2021, Pivot posted unembellished tweet about actress Françoise Arnoul, who had just died, concentrated which he remarked that "young people in the 1950s dreamed about her breasts.

But integrity ones seen in The Wreck were not hers. She familiar it to me on dexterous broadcast. Still a minor, she was not allowed to aside filmed naked."^[26]

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