Editing Bernard Pivot (section)

== Defence of paedophilia ==
On 26 November 1973, Pivot invited the paedophile novelist [[Tony Duvert]] onto his show ''Ouvrez les guillemets''. Duvert refused, letting his editor and supporters Jérôme Lindon and [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] promote his book.<ref>[https://www.ina.fr/video/CPF86628626 Ouvrez les guillemets : émission du 26 novembre 1973], INA.</ref>

In January 1975, [[Yves Berger]], the literary director of [[Éditions Grasset]] and [[Pierre Sabbagh]]'s cultural adviser on the 2nd channel of French television, persuaded [[Jacqueline Baudrier]], in charge of the 1st channel, to replace Marc Gilbert's ''Italics'' with Pivot's ''Ouvrez les guillemets'' talk show.<ref>[[Édouard Brasey]], ''L'effet Pivot'', [[Ramsay (publishing house)|Éditions Ramsay]], 1987, p.</ref> On 30 May 1975, he received [[Vladimir Nabokov]], the author of ''[[Lolita]]'' on ''Apostrophes''; on 12 December 1976, [[Michel Foucault]], who criticised psychoanalysis and "contractual sexuality" based on consent or non-consent, with [[René Schérer]], [[Guy Hocquenghem]] and [[François Châtelet]]; on 14 October 1983, [[Renaud Camus]], defender of the paedophile cause;<ref>L’Infini, Gallimard, n° 59, automne 1997, "La Question pédophile".</ref> on 23 April 1982, [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], who described having ambiguous relations with children in kindergarten;<ref>[https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/09/04/est-ce-que-l-ina-a-fait-disparaitre-les-propos-de-daniel-cohn-bendit-sur-la-sexualite-des-enfants_1676251 Est-ce que l'INA a fait disparaître les propos de Daniel Cohn-Bendit sur la sexualité des enfants ?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104032920/https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/09/04/est-ce-que-l-ina-a-fait-disparaitre-les-propos-de-daniel-cohn-bendit-sur-la-sexualite-des-enfants_1676251 |date=4 January 2020 }}, ''Libération''.</ref> on 2 March 1990, [[Gabriel Matzneff]], a noted paedophile<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-02-20|title=Gabriel Matzneff: the paedophile who hid in plain sight|url=https://preview.spectator.co.uk/article/gabriel-matzneff-the-paedophile-who-hid-in-plain-sight|access-date=2022-02-19|website=The Spectator Australia|language=en-US|archive-date=19 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219194728/https://preview.spectator.co.uk/article/gabriel-matzneff-the-paedophile-who-hid-in-plain-sight|url-status=live}}</ref> whose book ''Mes amours décomposés'' was highly criticised;<ref>[https://www.lesinrocks.com/inrocks.tv/lattrait-de-gabriel-matzneff-jeunes-enfants-etait-denonce-chez-pivot/ Quand l'attrait de Gabriel Matzneff pour les jeunes enfants était dénoncé chez Pivot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929042223/https://www.lesinrocks.com/inrocks.tv/lattrait-de-gabriel-matzneff-jeunes-enfants-etait-denonce-chez-pivot/ |date=29 September 2019 }}, Les Inrocks.</ref> on 23 February 2001, Catherine Dolto, to talk about the legalisation of paedophilia on ''Bouillon de Culture''; and in 2005, [[Michel Tournier]], whose references to paedophilia were published in [[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade |La Pléiade]] in 2017.<ref>[http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2016/01/19/03004-20160119ARTFIG00161-michel-tournier-sous-la-loupe-de-bernard-pivot.php Michel Tournier sous la loupe de Bernard Pivot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929051139/http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2016/01/19/03004-20160119ARTFIG00161-michel-tournier-sous-la-loupe-de-bernard-pivot.php |date=29 September 2019 }}, ''Le Figaro''.</ref>
 	
On 17 March 2013, Pivot defended [[Alexandre Postel]]'s book ''Un homme effacé'', which described a man who owns explicit pictures of children on his computer,<ref>[https://www.lejdd.fr/Chroniques/Bernard-Pivot/Arrete-sur-images-596851Le Journal du dimanche Arrêté sur images]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Le JDD.</ref> and on 30 October 2016, ''La Mauvaise vie'' by [[Frédéric Mitterrand]], as a "brave book, very brave, a kind of secular confession where each confession, as in [[Georges Perec]]'s "Je me souviens…", starts with "Je regrette…".<ref>[https://www.lejdd.fr/Chroniques/Bernard-Pivot/LIRE-Pivot-Frederic-Mitterrand-Je-regrette-820486 Frédéric Mitterrand : "Je regrette…", la chronique de Bernard Pivot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929044603/https://www.lejdd.fr/Chroniques/Bernard-Pivot/LIRE-Pivot-Frederic-Mitterrand-Je-regrette-820486 |date=29 September 2019 }}, ''Le Journal du Dimanche''.</ref>
	
In 2017, neuropsychiatrist Louis Masquin, in the Catholic magazine ''[[La Croix (newspaper)|La Croix]]'', described the introduction of paedophilic literature on French television in Pivot's shows as the "reflection of the "paedophile adventure", "considered approximately normal".<ref>[https://www.la-croix.com/Debats/Forum-et-debats/Le-lent-changement-regard-societe-pedophilie-2017-04-04-1200837019 Le lent changement de regard de la société sur la pédophilie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929043237/https://www.la-croix.com/Debats/Forum-et-debats/Le-lent-changement-regard-societe-pedophilie-2017-04-04-1200837019 |date=29 September 2019 }}, ''La Croix''.</ref>

In 2019, Pivot wrote on Twitter that "cardinals, bishops and priests who rape children don't believe in heaven or hell", criticising the influence of the [[Vatican II]] reform. In September 2019, he declared on Twitter: "In my generation, boys looked for little Swedish girls who had the reputation of being more open than French girls. I imagine our surprise, our fear, if we had approached a [[Greta Thunberg]]". Julien Bayou, from the environmentalist party [[Europe Écologie – Les Verts]], replied: "You're talking about a minor" and French feminist Caroline de Haas asked him to delete his post,<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunbergs-defiance-upsets-the-patriarchy-and-its-wonderful Greta Thunberg's defiance upsets the patriarchy – and it's wonderful] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007172639/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunbergs-defiance-upsets-the-patriarchy-and-its-wonderful |date=7 October 2019 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref> something he refused to do.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/greta-thunberg-bernard-pivot-assume-son-tweet-sexiste_fr_5d8b2ae6e4b08f48f4ad00ee Bernard Pivot assume son tweet sexiste sur Greta Thunberg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925163318/https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/greta-thunberg-bernard-pivot-assume-son-tweet-sexiste_fr_5d8b2ae6e4b08f48f4ad00ee |date=25 September 2019 }}, ''Huffington Post''.</ref> He was immediately defended by far-right essayist [[Éric Zemmour]].<ref>[http://www.adoxa.info/discours-eric-zemmour-a-la-convention-de-la-droite-retranscription-complete Discours d'Eric Zemmour à la convention de la droite] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006181705/http://www.adoxa.info/discours-eric-zemmour-a-la-convention-de-la-droite-retranscription-complete |date=6 October 2019 }}, Adoxa.</ref> In December, Pivot apologised for allowing Gabriel Matzneff to describe his relationships with teenage girls and boys on his literary talk shows without challenging him.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/27/french-publishing-boss-claims-she-was-groomed-at-age-14-by-acclaimed-author "French publishing boss claims she was groomed at age 14 by acclaimed author"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108184437/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/27/french-publishing-boss-claims-she-was-groomed-at-age-14-by-acclaimed-author |date=8 January 2020 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref>

In July 2021, Pivot posted a tweet about actress [[Françoise Arnoul]], who had just died, in which he remarked that "young people in the 1950s dreamed about her breasts. But the ones seen in ''[[The Wreck (1949 film)|The Wreck]]'' were not hers. She confessed it to me on a broadcast. Still a minor, she was not allowed to be filmed naked."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/07/22/ses-seins-ont-fait-rever-lhommage-de-bernard-pivot-a-francoise-arnoul-cree-le-malaise-9687062.php|title='Ses seins ont fait rêver' : l'Hommage de Bernard Pivot à l'actrice Françoise Arnoul crée le malaise|access-date=22 July 2021|archive-date=22 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722165118/https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/07/22/ses-seins-ont-fait-rever-lhommage-de-bernard-pivot-a-francoise-arnoul-cree-le-malaise-9687062.php|url-status=live}}</ref>