Tuesday, 1:08 p.m.
An email falls into the mailboxes of all the journalists and information collaborators of the TF1 group.
In object ?
“Funeral Jean-Pierre Pernaut”, seven days after his death, Wednesday March 2, from lung cancer.
The message confirms the date and place of the ceremony, scheduled to last two hours: Wednesday March 9 at 11 a.m., in the Sainte-Clotilde basilica in Paris (VIIe).
Employees who wish to go there are invited to contact the four front page managers who oversee the organization, including the deputy director of information, Anne de Coudenhove.
Impossible to attend without being registered on the list.
The chain recalls that an “important security device” will be put in place to “avoid any intrusion by people not wanted by the family and relatives of Jean-Pierre”.
The latter asked that no journalist outside TF1 be allowed to enter.
It is also specified that “no camera is authorized to enter the enclosure of the basilica”.
No retransmission on a screen either for the fans, who will have no other access.
Michel Drucker, Brigitte Macron, Miss France…
To cover these funerals, the front page will continue its news until 2 p.m. with “a page dedicated to Jean-Pierre”.
This special edition led by Jacques Legros has planned to send two teams of reporters outside the basilica and to collect testimonies in the regions.
Inside, several faces of the chain will pay homage to him.
According to our information, the president of the TF1 group, Gilles Pélisson, the weather presenter Évelyne Dhéliat, the journalist Michel Izard and his former partner, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère, will speak.
On the personalities side, we also expect the presence of Michel Drucker, Brigitte Macron or several Miss France, whom Jean-Pierre Pernaut used to welcome on his set before the preparatory trip to the national election.
Followed for a second lung cancer, he had also agreed to be president of the jury of the last ceremony in Caen, in December.
The burial of the former presenter of 13 Hours will then be held "in the strictest privacy", probably in one of the cemeteries of Amiens (Somme), his city of birth and heart.
