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"Work, bistro, hamlet: long live the France of Jean-Pierre Pernaut!"

2020-09-16T17:44:26.115Z


TRIBUNE - The writer David Brunat * pays a warm and affectionate tribute to the famous presenter of the TF1 1-hour newspaper, ambassador of local and everyday life, who is preparing to pass the torch.


She had found her powerful and tender voice, her tireless lawyer and her inimitable portrait painter, this France which runs on cigarettes and diesel, prefers old washhouses to wind turbines, the pipes of Saint-Claude to smoky ideologues above ground, village life in the Parisian microcosm and which practices simple values ​​- work, bistro, hamlet.

Ambassador of terroirs and folklores, telegenic troubadour of a mocked but persistent rurality, defender of the widow of Carpentras proud of her vernacular heritage and of the orphan of the bocage trained in some rare manual trade, Jean-Pierre Pernaut invited himself every day in our homes for thirty-three years.

A third of a century!

An eternity on the scale of cathodic temporalities.

To read also:

Jean-Pierre Pernaut: "Why I leave the 13 hours of TF1"

This exceptional longevity on the air, he devoted it to celebrating in his small colorful and picturesque window the variety of the country, the life of the people, the taste for simple things.

“Le 13 heures des péquenots, France seen from Beauf and

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Source: lefigaro

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