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Preface

He made serious literature popular and if he liked a new book the nation ran out and bought it. He even made a televised spelling test appointment viewing. The talk-show host Bernard Pivot is a peculiarly French hero.  

Writer
Alice Quillet

Photographer
Fabien Gordon



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