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Mazarine Pingeot
French writer, journalist and professor
Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot[1] (French pronunciation:[mazaʁinmaʁimit(ɛ)ʁɑ̃pɛ̃ʒo]; born Mazarine Marie Pingeot on 18 December 1974) is a French writer, journalist and professor.
Biography
Pingeot is the daughter of former French presidentFrançois Mitterrand and his mistressAnne Pingeot.
Mazarine Pingeot is the daughter of François Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot, his longtime mistress, and for much of her youth and nearly his entire 14-year.
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.[2] Her existence was long hidden from the press but was once almost revealed by the French writer Jean-Edern Hallier.[3] 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.[1]
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