The streets of Paris are deserted, curfew requires.
The rain has stopped falling.
The streetlamps are reflected on the wet sidewalks.
Only a few taxis still roam the streets.
Even the Eiffel Tower is discreet.
Not far away, at the Maison de la Radio in the 16th arrondissement of the capital, a few small dim lights are on.
"It's 3:18 am, you're late!
»Launches at our entrance an amused voice, arrived a few minutes earlier in the writing.
This voice is that of Marc Fauvelle, bundled up in a hoodie.
Since 2018, the 44-year-old man has been at the helm of Franceinfo's morning show which flies away, listened to every day by 645,000 people (or 170,000 more in a year) for whom his alarm clock rings at 2:30.
Even when he's been watching for a soccer game.
"We tell ourselves that we take the plane very early every morning," he smiles.
In fact, you mostly get used to being tired and sleeping more on weekends.
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Journalist Marc Fauvelle has been presenting Franceinfo's morning show since 2018. LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
In front of him, BFMTV's night loop turns on a screen.
But the morning attendant barely glances at it, busier going through the newspapers that have just come out of the printing presses.
"Ah, for once, Le Parisien has a good subject," he says, always quick to joke despite the nighttime schedule.
This morning in early May, our newspaper wonders about protection against Covid-19 at airports.
That's good, Augustin de Romanet, the boss of the Paris airports, is the guest of the morning that day.
4:10 a.m., first editorial meeting
At 4:10 am sharp, after a short break and a third coffee, a first editorial conference takes place.
Six to seven people participate, with twenty minutes watch in hand to prepare the newspapers and organize the premature, as well as the morning in detail.
Which subject to prioritize?
Which one to remember most regularly in the flashes?
Rebelote an hour later, while Agathe Mahuet and Aurélien Accart have just arrived on the air for 5 am-7am.
“Despite the schedule, time flies,” admits editor-in-chief Philippe Poulenard.
Several editorial conferences intersect the morning of Franceinfo to allow you to adapt to the news.
LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
While the 6-hour flash is underway, Salhia Brakhlia arrives at the editorial office where a dozen people are busy.
Unlike Marc Fauvelle, the 35-year-old journalist, well known to viewers of "Quotidien" on TMC, only intervenes for the 8:30 am interview since the end of August.
“It's the least worst,” she jokes.
My alarm clock goes off at 4.30 am usually.
But sometimes a little later.
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The former journalist of "Quotidien", Salhia Brakhlia provides the 8:30 am interview.
LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
An intense rhythm, which must be kept.
Even when guilty pleasure is on TV.
"Yesterday evening, I looked
at Married at first sight
on M 6 and I did not go to bed before 11:30 pm ..." "Generally, we start the preparation the day before, at the end of the morning", confirms Salhia Brakhlia.
The tandem continues to exchange in the afternoon to clarify the themes to be addressed.
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And at the beginning of the evening, each one sends a list of fifty questions.
Before this final point in the morning.
"Where generally we realize that we have a majority of questions in common", explains the presenter from 7 am to 9:30 am.
“But in reality, we are breaking away from what we have prepared to reflect on the responses of our guests.
And we understand each other in the blink of an eye with Marc, ”abounds her colleague.
6 a.m. a bridge collapsed in Mexico
But at 6:22 a.m., an AFP alert fell.
A bridge has just collapsed in Mexico City as a subway train was crossing it.
The schedule is turned upside down.
And the balance sheet uncertain.
A first figure circulates in the local media.
But no confirmation.
"I'm not announcing anything until it's sure!"
»Says Marc Fauvelle.
All the more so at 6:50 a.m., when he prints his numerous files, the authorities still have not spoken.
It was only by sitting behind the microphone that the journalist discovered a first assessment, reporting 13 dead.
Barely heard, despite a faulty headset, immediately given to listeners.
Franceinfo morning audiences have been flying since 2020, with nearly 645,000 listeners every day.
LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
The rhythm calms down.
Before setting off again in a boom.
At 8:27 am, he only has three minutes to descend the two floors that lead him to the television studio and to Salhia Brakhlia, for the co-broadcast of the interview on radio and television, on channel 27. This no. It is only at 9:30 am that Marc Fauvelle can breathe.
Well almost.
If the morning of the day is over, the team debriefs.
And prepare for the next day.
Before a well-deserved nap.
“Usually from 12:30 pm to 1 pm to 3 pm, like Salhia,” says Marc Fauvelle.
But not beyond 4 p.m., otherwise it's impossible to be ready.
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