Matzneff, a noted pedophile whose book Mes amours décomposés was highly criticised; on 23 February 2001, Catherine Dolto, to talk about the legalization of pedophilia on Bouillon de Culture; and in 2005, Michel Tournier, whose references to pedophilia were published in La Pléiade in 2017. 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, 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…". In 2017, neuropsychiatrist Louis Masquin, in the Catholic review La Croix, described the introduction of pedophilic literature on French television in Pivot's shows as the "reflection of the "pedophile adventure", "considered approximately normal". In 2019, Pivot wrote on Twitter that "cardinals, bishops and priests who rape children don't believe in heaven or hell", criticizing 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, something he refused to do. He was immediately defended by far-right essayist Éric Zemmour. In December, Pivot apologized for allowing Gabriel Matzneff to describe his relationships with teenage girls and boys on his literary talk shows without challenging him. In July 2021, Pivot posted a controversial 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 were not hers. She confessed it to me on a broadcast. Still a minor, she was not allowed to be filmed naked." References External links 1935 births Living people French journalists French television talk show hosts Officers of the Order of Canada Knights of the National Order of Quebec Clergy from Lyon French male non-fiction writers Le Figaro people