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Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the presenter of the 13 Hours newspaper on TF1 for 33 years, died of lung cancer at the age of 71 on Wednesday March 2. A look back at the journey of the man who had invented a style, a way of addressing the French and telling the story of the France he loved.
On Wednesday March 2, Jean-Pierre Pernaut died at the age of 71 from lung cancer. In December 2020, the journalist, moved, bowed out at 13 Hours of TF1 which he had presented for 33 years. “He marked the French because his diary was a mirror”testifies the animator Jean-Pierre Foucault, who was also his friend.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut had started at home, in Picardy, at the time of the ORTF, before joining TF1 when it was created in 1975. A field journalist, he was among the first Westerners to access the prohibited zone of Chernobyl . Presenter, animator of the magazine “How much does it cost?”, three Golden Sevens have rewarded his rich career. Last November, he announced that he had lung cancer. He is one of television’s most popular journalists who disappears.