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In the media “Mesdames”, Mazarine Pingeot spoke about this difficult moment, where she said goodbye to her father, François Mitterrand. That day, the “two families” of the former President of the Republic were reunited: the two women in his life, Danielle Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot, Mazarine’s mother. A moment that was not easy to experience, for either of them, as Mazarine Pingeot explains to Maïtena Biraben…
Mazarine Pingeot recounts the delicate moment when the two wives of her father, François Mitterrand, found each other…
the daughter of François Mitterrand, published 11, quai Branly (Flammarion), a book in which she recalls her memories as a teenager, on this famous Parisian avenue. An adolescence And for good reason: the former President of the Republic, married to led a double life that the French did not suspect with her mother, Anne Pingeot. It was not until November 10, 1994, when she was 19, that Paris Match will reveal to the general public the existence of Mazarine, by publishing a photo of her and her father, leaving a restaurant…
Interviewed by Maïtena Biraben for the media LadiesMazarine Pingeot recalled a difficult memory of her life: the funeral of her father, in January 1996. That day, the two wives of the President of the Republic, Danielle Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot, were gathered to greet François Mitterrand, the love of their lives, one last time. Certainly, the moment was not very easy for both families. But everything ultimately went well that day, remembers Mazarine Pingeot.
“Everyone lived in this intelligence”
According to Mazarine Pingeot, . “To him [François Mitterrand]that’s a bit what he wanted, she continues. Everyone lived in this intelligence. Of course, he didn’t do it during his lifetime. Whatever he introduced me to Danielle [Mitterrand] when he was already bedridden (…) He arranged for us to meet. It had to be self-evident. Everyone understood the slogan, it went without saying.“
In LadiesMazarine Pingeot also addressed women and men, whose children are required to “live in secrecy”, as was the case for her, for 19 years. “I’m quite radical, assures the daughter of the former President of the Republic. I think we should tell the truth. Provided you find an appropriate language, an appropriate time (…) You always have to, in one way or another, tell the truth. Because anyway, if we don’t tell it, it will come back… And in a toxic way.”
