Jacqueline Caurat, pioneering announcer, small screen star and TV producer, from the 1950s to the 1980s, died at the age of 93, her family announced on Saturday.
She was one of the star announcers of the time, along with Jacqueline Joubert, Jacqueline Huet and Catherine Langeais.
She entered RTF at 25 while reading a classified ad: The Unique Channel was looking for someone speaking English (she was born in England) to translate the British programs at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
“Ondas” award for best European presenter, she made a name for herself as a philatelic journalist.
With her husband, Jacques Mancier, columnist specializing in Le Figaro, she produced and animated for two decades (1961-1983) "Télé-Philatélie", then "Philatélie-Club", magazines devoted to philately and postal history.
"They followed me on vacation!"
“At the time (of the announcers), you were considered stars.
They followed me on vacation, I posed in a swimsuit, on magazine covers, ”she once told Téléstar.
“Paparazzi even photographed me with Jacques four days before the birth of our first daughter.
We were walking in a square, it became a big cover story in a magazine!
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During her career on the small screen, she also hosted programs for children and even designed youth programs.
She also recorded children's records.
Jacqueline Caurat also took part in the beginnings of Belgian television with "Nouvelles Têtes" by Jacques Canetti (famous producer of French song).
On Télé-Luxembourg, she interviewed film stars and theater actors in "Tête-à-Tête".
Promoted to Officer of the Order of Merit, she also contributed to some twenty periodicals and magazines, including Le Figaro, Femme d'Aujourd'hui, Notre Temps, Pilote, and signed several books on Philately, such as “Les JO d 'winter through Postage Stamps' (Presse de la Cité).