A disappearance which never ceases to arouse emotion and tributes. Bernard Pivot died this Monday, May 6, 2024. Cécile Pivot, the daughter of the famous writer, announced the disappearance of her father, at the age of 89, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. This eternal lover of the French language and literature has transmitted his passion to the whole of France for decades, by inviting on the show Apostrophes the greatest writers.
In an interview last year with the Journal du Dimanche, he indicated that he was withdrawing from public life due to health problems. “I remained silent because the evil struck me in the head, the seat of the brain and speech. It is better to remain silent while waiting for the memory to recharge and the thoughts to flourish again.“, he explained, adding his choice “to stop television to anticipate what would have inexorably happened: public weariness“.
“To my great regret, I abandoned my JDD column because I was ill, disabled and I could no longer write as I did for your readers, for our readers, if I may, for more than a quarter century”he also underlined.
This Monday, May 6, Anne-Elisabeth did not fail to return to this death in C to you. The host rebroadcast an extract from his time on the show in 2021 when he used a “swear word” to talk about how “getting old” was.tiresome“.”I chose that boring word because it’s forceful.”he lamented before explaining in more detail what was “boring”: “It’s health that’s declining, obviously. It’s the memory of names that gets lost. We are more attentive to the sounds of our body than to the noises of the world.” he declared.
While Babeth received François Busnel and Augustin Trapenard on her set, she asked her guests if they had been able to discuss this decline with this transmitter of knowledge. The host and producer of The big bookstore confirmed that he had spoken about it with him while remaining evasive. Augustin Trapenard indicated for his part: “It’s true that he was very modest and in this book for which you received him, he talked about the question of age. I remember asking him ‘What scares you the most?’, he replied ‘Well, dying!’ “. Patrick Cohen also highlighted “that he had chosen not to show himself anymore from the moment he thought it was better not to show his decrepitude”.
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