Background
Pingeot is the daughter of former French president François Mitterrand and his mistress Anne Pingeot. The existence of this daughter of president Mitterrand was long hidden from the press
Pingeot is the daughter of former French president François Mitterrand and his mistress Anne Pingeot. The existence of this daughter of president Mitterrand was long hidden from the press
Lycée Henri-IV.
Ensuring confidentiality about it was one of the motivations behind some of the illegal wiretapping that Mitterrand ordered under the guise of fighting terrorism. She was a student first at the elite lycée Henri-IV in Paris and then at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (now named the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines), a highly prestigious school. In 1997 she passed the agrégation de philosophie, and then started to write her Doctor of Philosophy thesis on the philosopher Spinoza, working as an assistant at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I.
She is also a journalist (writing for Elle between 1999 and 2001) and a television anchor (on a French cable television channel, Paris Première).