{{Short description|French art historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} '''Anne Pingeot''' (born 13 May 1943) is a French art historian specialising in French sculpture of the 19th century and author of several books and catalogues.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pingeot|first=Anne|first2=Robert |last2=Hoozee |author3=Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais |author4=Musée des Beaux-Arts|title=Paris-Bruxelles, Bruxelles-Paris|publisher=Réunion des Musées Nationaux|date=1997}}</ref> She was curator at the department of sculpture at the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay.

She was the mistress of François Mitterrand, the former President of the French Republic.<ref>[http://www.causeur.fr/jean-edernhallier-thiollet-40425.html "Jean-Edern Hallier mord encore"], Jean-Pierre Thiollet interview by Sébastien Bataille, ''Causeur'', 8 October 2016.</ref> Together they had a daughter, Mazarine Pingeot.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ben-Yehuda|first =Nachman|title=Betrayals and Treason: Violations of Trust and Loyalty|url=https://archive.org/details/betrayalstreason00beny|url-access=limited|publisher=Westview Press|date=2001|isbn=0-8133-9776-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/betrayalstreason00beny/page/n62 50]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=François Mitterrand's love letters to secret mistress to be published |work=The Guardian |date=5 October 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/francois-mitterrands-love-letters-to-secret-mistress-to-be-published }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=François Mitterrand's passion for secret mistress laid bare in love letters published for first time |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=6 October 2016 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/06/franois-mitterrands-passion-for-secret-mistress-laid-bare-in-lov/ }}</ref>

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=== Bibliography === *2005: {{Cite book|first1=Géraldine|last1=Catalano|first2=Ariane|last2=Chemin|author2-link=Ariane Chemin|title=Une famille au secret; le Président, Anne et Mazarine|publisher=Stock|location=Paris|pages=[https://archive.org/details/unefamilleausecr0000chem/page/264 264]|isbn=2-234-05813-9|url=https://archive.org/details/unefamilleausecr0000chem/page/264}} *2008: ''La sculpture au XIXe : mélanges pour Anne Pingeot'', collectif coordonné par Catherine Chevillot et Laure de Margerie, Éditions Nicolas Chaudun, {{ISBN|978-2-350-39054-3}} *2012: Mazarine Pingeot, ''Bon petit soldat'', Paris, Julliard, {{ISBN|978-2260020356}} *2014: {{Cite book|first=David|last=Le Bailly|authorlink = David Le Bailly|title=La captive de Mitterrand|publisher=Stock|location=Paris|pages=341|isbn=978-2-234-07534-4}} * François Mitterrand, ** ''Journal pour Anne : 1964–1970'', Éditions Gallimard, coll. "Blanche", 2016, 496 p. {{ISBN|978-2070197231}} ** ''Lettres à Anne : 1962–1995'', Gallimard, coll. "Blanche", 2016, 1280 p. {{ISBN|978-2070197248}}

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