Mazarine Pingeot
French writer, journalist and professor
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- Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot ( French pronunciation: [mazaʁin maʁi mit(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ pɛ̃ʒo] ; born Mazarine Marie Pingeot on 18 December 1974) is a French writer, journalist and professor.
- She is said to be named after the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the oldest library in France, because of her parents' love for books.
- Her existence was long hidden from the press but was once almost revealed by the French writer Jean-Edern Hallier.
- Pingeot legally adopted her father's surname in November 2016.
- In 1997, she passed the agrégation de philosophie , and then briefly started - but did not complete - a Ph.
Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot (French pronunciation: [mazaʁin maʁi mit(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ pɛ̃ʒo]; born Mazarine Marie Pingeot on 18 December 1974) is a French writer, journalist and professor.
Biography
Pingeot is the daughter of former French president François Mitterrand and his mistress Anne Pingeot. She is said to be named after the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the oldest library in France, because of her parents' love for books. She could also be named after cardinal Mazarin, who was admired by her father. Her existence was long hidden from the press but was once almost revealed by the French writer Jean-Edern Hallier. Keeping Mazarine Pingeot's identity from the public was one of the motivations behind some of the illegal wiretapping that Mitterrand ordered under the guise of fighting terrorism. Pingeot legally adopted her father's surname in November 2016.
She was a student first at the elite Lycée Henri-IV in Paris and then at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (now named the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), a highly prestigious school. In 1997, she passed the agrégation de philosophie, and then briefly started - but did not complete - a Ph.D. thesis on the philosopher Spinoza, working as a teaching assistant at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I.
She was also a journalist (writing for Elle between 1999 and 2001) and a television anchor (on a French cable television channel, Paris Première).
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