Frederic Pages (born 1950) is a French journalist noted for his work with the satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine. Pages studied philosophy at University, and worked as a high school teacher until 1985.
At Le Canard enchaine, his humorous columns included Le Journal de Xaviere T, a spoof diary of Xaviere Tiberi, who was the wife of Jean Tiberi, then mayor of Paris. From December 2007, he wrote Le Journal de Carla B, a spoof diary of Carla Bruni, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Pages has written a book of spoof philosophy under the name Jean-Baptiste Botul: La vie sexuelle d'Emmanuel Kant (The Sex Life of Emmanuel Kant).
He founded the "Association of Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul" to promote this fictitious philosopher and his school of "Botulism". In 2010, the hoax caught out the well-known TV philosopher Bernard-Henri L?vy, whose book De La Guerre En Philosophie used Botul as the primary source for his attack on Kant. Interestingly, during the '90s, Pages was the singer of the band "The Dead Pompidous".
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