Bernard Pivot evokes, moved, the breasts of Françoise Arnoul and so?

Tartuffe had better watch out.

Stronger than the leagues of virtue, internet users, feminists and other staunch defenders of fashionable well-thought, have just pinned down no less than Bernard Pivot, who until recently, presided over the destinies of the academy Goncourt.

His fault, his politically correct crime, you will tell me?

He dared to evoke the breasts of the late actress Françoise Arnoul, who passed away last week at the age of 90.

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As often the new prosecutors of social networks do not stop only with the foam of the words. Because if Bernard Pivot has indeed evoked the impeccable form of the actress by writing on Tweeter “

”, he also took the opportunity in the second half of his sentence to talk about the too big prudery of the time by recalling a tasty anecdote entrusted to her by the actress behind the scenes of Apostrophes: “

The wreck

"

Certainly the memory of the image that remained in the memory of Bernard Pivot ...

André Le Gall and therefore the stripped lining of Françoise Arnoul in L'Épave de Willy Rozier in 1949 Leemage

This revelation on these breasts shown (but doubled) on the screen, an extremely rare event if not banned in 1949, says a lot about the morals and (false) prudishness that had free rein at the beginning of the 20th century and until in the 50s.

The beauty of Françoise Arnoul, but also those of Ava Gardner, Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn Monroe will pave the way for Brigitte Bardot and then for the androgynous beauties of the 70s. This is perhaps what the historic animator of

wanted to suggest.

... Dear Bernard, do not especially hide your tweets that the new morality cannot see ...

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