Bernard Pivot has passed through Haute-Savoie and Ain numerous times throughout his career. In the Pays de Gex in particular. In 2003, during his tour for the play “Memories of a Headscratcher”, he told our journalist that he had great memories in the Pays de Gex: “I have very good memories in Divonne . When I was a young journalist at Le Figaro, my editor-in-chief Maurice Noël had a second home in Divonne. He invited his team over for the weekend two or three times. He was a great amateur cook and we enjoyed ourselves at his place. Good memories too because I was in awe, when I was very young, of this man who had Paul Claudel and Valéry as friends. »
In September 2024, invited to Lirolac, the Talloires Book Festival, Bernard Pivot returned to his love of words and the profession of writer: “a writer cannot live, love, work like another man or another female. This is what makes my author amusing because he constantly encounters difficulties of expression, particularly in love. For me, words are living beings. Everyone has a face. »
In November 2017, visiting Cluses for his show “Au succor!” the words ate me”, Bernard Pivot told us about his love of books… paper (3): “I remain faithful to paper. I have always been a paper eater. I have already read books on tablets, but we do not find the sensuality, the pleasure of the senses that a book in our hands provides. I think that if we read Proust on a tablet, we are no longer in today’s world than in that of Proust. »
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