You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
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| Birth: | 5th May, 1935 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Journalist |
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Bernard Pivot is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. He is the chairman of the Académie Goncourt. Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of grocers. During World War II, his father, Charles Pivot, was taken prisoner and his mother moved the family home to the village of Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where Bernard Pivot started school.
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