Mazarine Pingeot
| Mazarine Mitterand Pingeot | |
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Mazarine Pingeot in 2006
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Mazarine Marie Pingeot 18 December 1974 Avignon |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, academic |
Mazarine Marie Pingeot (born 18 December 1974 in Avignon, Vaucluse), who changed her name to Mazarine Marie Mitterand Pingeot in November 2016, is a writer, journalist and professor.
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. The existence of this daughter of president Mitterrand was long hidden from the press but hardly revealed by the French writer Jean-Edern Hallier. Ensuring confidentiality about it was one of the motivations behind some of the illegal wiretapping that Mitterrand ordered under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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 Lettres et Sciences Humaines), a highly prestigious school. In 1997 she passed the agrégation de philosophie, and then started to write her Ph.D. thesis on the philosopher Spinoza, working as an assistant at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I.
She is 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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