Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot (; 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.
Mitterrand Pingeot's 2020 novel Et la peur continue ("And the fear is constant") follows a woman who lives in a constant state of fear caused by the everyday pressures she experiences in her professional and personal life.
Family
She has one son, Astor, born in 2005, and two daughters, born in 2007 and 2009, with her former partner , a film director. In 2017 she married diplomat .
References
External links
- Mazarine Pingeot on site of TimesOnline