“La vie continue.”
Homage to Bernard Pivot
I don’t know how well known Bernard Pivot is in the United States. I certainly hadn’t heard of him until I moved to a French-speaking country and got together with Anne-Sophie who grew up watching Pivot present authors on French television.
Pivot, who died Monday aged 89, hosted shows on French public television devoted to books, two of which Apostrophes and Bouillon de Culture aired from 1975 until 2001. I never saw those shows live, but I saw Pivot interviewed in real time on a successor show called La Grande Librairie.