Patrick Poivre d\' Arvor

Patrick Poivre d' Arvor (name of birth Patrick Poivre ), called PPDA , born the September 20th 1947 with Rheims in the the Marne, is a Journaliste and writer French. He is the presenter-high-speed motorboat of the Tv news 20 hours of TF1 since 1987.

He is also delegate president to the Information of this chain since 1989 and member of the club the Century .

Biography

Childhood

Wire of a Nantes mother and a father also of Breton origin representing in Shoe often absent. He has a Catherine sister and a brother Olivier, writer and Philosophe born in 1958. Since the two years age, and all its childhood, it spends all its holidays to Trégastel in northern Brittany, place to which it is very attached and “Breton origin and of heart says”. He admires his paternal grandfather, hero of aviation during the Second world war and friend of the writer and pilot Antoine of Saint Exupéry and his large maternal father, Jean-Baptiste Jeuge, Relieur and poet recognized under the name of author “Jean d' Arvor” (he has a street with his name with Rheims), which initiates it with the writing and from which he will borrow his Pseudonyme “of Arvor”.

Studies

1962: Exceptionally gifted Graduate at 15 years. At the same age, he becomes father of Dorothée with his future wife Veronique Institutrice then mother with the hearth. Following this premature paternity, he writes his Romance first Best seller at age the 16 years the children of the paddle sold to 1.5 million specimens. He has four other children, Arnaud Poivre of Arvor (1973), Tiphaine (1975 - 1975), Solenn (1976 - 1995) and Morgane (1981, Juriste). He is also the father of François Chazal Poivre of Arvor born into 1995 of his connection with Claire Chazal.

It wishes to become initially Diplomate and obtains a license Droit with for professor Jack Lang to the faculty of graduate Rheims then of the Institut of political studies of Bordeaux and a diploma of Eastern Langues (Serbo-Croatian) to the National institute of the languages and civilizations Eastern.

1970: 22 years old, it integrates finally the Training center of journalists (CFJ) to become Journaliste.

France Inter

1971: Prize winner of the contest “Special correspondent” of France Inter, it begins his career from Journaliste under the direction of Roger Gicquel, where it is charged with the newspapers of the morning and the Press review. He becomes then international reporter and militant giscardien.

Antenna 2

1974: on arrival of Valery Giscard d'Estaing to the Elysium, it enters to Antenne 2 where he becomes chief of the service “interior Politique”, then chief of the service “economic Politique, and Social”. It very quickly animates its first television program as of 1975.

1976: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach chooses it to be assistant Editor association Tv news 20 hours that it presents February 16th 1976 to the July 28th 1983.

1979 - 1981: it is leader-writer of the heading “mood of the day” on France Inter with 7:45.

1981: it must share the presentation of the 20 hour old newspaper with Christine Ockrent, the two journalists alternating one week out of two; this decision of the new chairman of the chain Pierre Desgraupes was interpreted by Patrick Poivre d' Arvor like a political sanction.

1982: for the first time of its history, the 20 hour old newspaper of Antenne 2 precedes that of TF1 of many televiewers.

1983: it leaves the public channel Antenne 2 to join the new chain Canal+ where it animates the Talk show All in scene until in 1986.

1985: it makes a rapid passage on Radio Monte Carlo, then a short return to Antenne 2 like Producteur of television.

TF1

1986: PPDA joined TF1 chaired by Herve Bourges to present the Sunday emission To the madness at all until in 1987.

1987: TF1 is privatized and bought the April 6th by Francis Bouygues. The president and vice-president Patrick Le Lay and Etienne Mougeotte choose it starting from the August 31st to succeed Roger Gicquel, Jean-Claude Bourret, Bruno Masure, Claude Sérillon, Ladislas de Hoyos and Marie-France Cubadda with the reins of the Tv news of 20:00 of the Monday to Thursday, which it still to date presents in alternation with Claire Chazal the weekend. The newspaper of the chain becomes again more looked at France in front of that of Antenne 2. It also presents the emission To the madness Sunday until in 1988

1988: it obtains TF1 to present a literary emission in last part of evening and creates Ex-libris , become since the October 16th 1999 Night flight , which it still currently animates.

1989: he becomes also delegate president to the Information of TF1 under the direction of Patrick Le Lay (chairman of the chain since the February 23rd 1988). Its Caricature Puppet, called PPD and animated by the texts of Bruno Gaccio and the voice of the Imitateur Yves Lecoq, becomes satirical presenter high-speed motorboat Guignols of information on Canal+.

2000: it is named vice-president of the new regional chain private Bretonne launched TV Breizh in September by Patrick Le Lay.

PPDA is today the presenter of Tv news more Populaire and more looked at Média S of the Information French. It adds up more than 4500 tv news and 30 years of trade at this station.

Patrick Poivre d' Arvor was high the March 18th 2007 with the rank of commander in the Ordre of Arts and the Letters by the Minister for the Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.

Invited Jean-Marc Morandini on Europe1 on April 3rd, 2007, Patrick Poivre d' Arvor declared that it will leave the 20 hours in 2012 and will devote itself to the writing and its humane engagements. The weather also said not to be interested by the station of Robert Namias, but plans to be a political career later, refusing to say for which party he would engage.

May 2nd, 2007, it Co-present with Arlette Chabot the debate televised of the second turn of the French presidential election of 2007 between Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal.

Controversies

Several failures with the Déontologie of journalism were reproached Patrick Poivre d' Arvor.

1991: Most famous is without question the faked interview of Fidel Castro, diffused the December 16th 1991. This interview having been realized with Régis Falcon, PPDA rejected on several occasions the responsibility for it on its fellow-member, after this last had left TF1. Faking had been dismounted the month following the diffusion by the Magazine Télérama and the journalist Pierre Carles.

1996: the January 10th it is condemned in call in the lawsuit Michel Noir - Pierre Botton, for concealment of Abuse of corporate asset, in 15 month of suspended sentence and 200.000 francs of fine (30 800 €uro).

One as reproached him a match of Football between friends as it could play Parc of the Princes thanks to its relations with the Mairie of Paris, match revealed by same the Pierre Carles (it ensures " however; never not to accept gifts of the policies " in the film Not considering step taken of 1998 of Pierre Carles).

In addition its innumerable fashionable relations and its private life made PPDA a usual subject of the Tabloid press S, to which it devoted a book with Eric Zemmour, Rats of guard .

Private life

The family of Patrick Poivre d' Arvor ensures to go down from Jacques Poivre, brother of the navigator Agronome Pierre Poivre, anobli by Louis XV with the XVIIIe century. “D' Arvor” was a Pseudonyme of writer poet carried by his maternal grandfather Jean-Baptiste Jeuge recognized under the name of author of " Jean D' Arvor ".

Patrick Poivre and her three children (of which his son Arnaud Poivre of Arvor) deposited a request in name change near the Council of State (Official journal of the July 8th 2004), in order to change their family name into Poivre of Arvor . According to short of the Web site of the Magazine of Press people Official reception of the December 15th 2004, the request would have been satisfied very quickly.

Married to Veronique Pepper of Arvor, (Teacher then mother with the hearth) PPDA claims with a life “of ladies' man”, unrepentant, with the Don Juan.

1995: the January 27th, its Solenn daughter, 19 years old, attack of Anorexia nervosa, Suicide by throwing under an oar of Subway at the station Fine sands with Neuilly-sur-Seine and succumbs to its wounds with the Hôpital Beaujon. It left a letter to her father: “Thank you for all but I do not like the life. I want to be incinerated and kept in small limps, but not thrown to the sea”. PPDA dedicated two books in 1995 to him: Letters with absent the and It was not from here . A house of the teenagers, the Maison of Solenn was inaugurated in 2004 within the hospital Cochin of Paris. It was mainly financed by the Opération Yellow pieces, sponsored by Bernadette Chirac, president of the Fondation Hospital of Paris-Hospital of France, from which the girl Laurence Chirac also suffered from Anorexia nervosa.

1995: The April 29th, Claire Chazal is confined of a child named François Chazal Poivre of Arvor, born from a connection with him, denied a long time with the public and the press until he recognizes the paternity of the child for the first time in 2005 in his book Confessions appeared at Fayard.

1996: PPDA takes part with Laurent Bourgnon in the Transat Quebec-Saint-Malo during 11 days.

2001: it takes part in the Marathon of New York (time of 4:56: 42).

2003: it is made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in April.

2006: it takes part in the Théâtre of the Madeleine to the mobilization in favor of the populations of the Darfur and sponsors a sporting challenge of the French navigatrice Maud Fontenoy.

2007: PPDA takes part with Sylvie Pinatel in the race the Large Course under the flag of Reporters without borders. This same year, it is also promoted commander of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters.

PPDA says “Breton origin and of heart”, though born with Rheims, in the Marne. Indeed, it has a house of holidays when it goes as often as possible in the Coasts of Armor, on the pink Côte of granite with Trégastel, “to one km of the castle of Coasteres” as it says it him even in an interview granted to the Breton chain Armor TV , of which he is the godfather.

Literature

PPDA is a prolific writer with about thirty varied literary works Co-written for the majority with his/her brother Olivier Poivre of Arvor, of which its first Best seller writes at the 16 years age: several Biography S on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Corsair Robert Surcouf, Vasco de Gama, Lawrence of Arabia, Jules Verne… and a mainly autobiographical work of inspiration.

In 1988 it obtains TF1 to present a literary emission in last part of evening and creates Ex-libris , become since the October 16th 1999 Night flight , which it still currently animates. It also animates a literary emission on the chain of Information uninterrupted LCI: Place with the book .

Distinctions

Knight of the Legion of honor (2003)
Commander of the Arts and the Letters (2007)

Literary work

He is the author of about thirty works, whose the Children of the paddle , Best seller writes with 16 years, and Irresolute the for which he obtains the Interallied Prix in 2000:

Children of the paddle , 1982 J. - C. Slats, ISBN 2709601486 (Best seller writes at 16 years, sold to 1.5 million specimens)

(Adapted in Téléfilm in 2004: the Child of the paddle of Marc Angelo with Thierry Lhermitte and Melanie Thierry)

Two lovers , 1984.
the Novel of Virginia , 1985 (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor) (Price of the Breton Writers). This epistolary novel has had for summer republished under the title Frères and sister .
the Women of my life , 1988 France Leisures
the man of image , 1992 Flammarion, ISBN 2080668021
Letters with absent the 1993 Albin Michel (with his Solenn daughter died in 1995)
the Wolves and the sheep-fold , 1994 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226069879
It was not from here , 1995 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226078460 (with his/her Solenn daughter died in 1995)
a Hero of passage , 1996 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226085637
a treason in love , 1997 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226093567
Open letter with the rapists of private life , 1997 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226092048
the End of the world 1998 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226100091
Small Man , 1999 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226106588
Irresolute the , 2000 Albin Michel ISBN 2226116702 (Interallied Price in 2000).
the Rats of guard (joint author Eric Zemmour) 2000 Stock, ISBN 2234052173
the Novel of Virginia , 2001 I read, ISBN 2277220809
a child , 2001 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226126082 (price of the readers of the Book of pocket 2003)
the Crossing of the mirror , 2002 Balland, ISBN 271581416X
I loved a queen , 2003 Editions Beech, ISBN 2213615624
Courriers of night (legend of Mermoz and Saint-Exupéry), (with Olivier Poivre of Arvor), 2003 Place des Victoires, ISBN 2844590454
the Death of Don Juan , 2004 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226154000
Brothers and sister , 2004 Balland, ISBN 2715814828. This novel is a republication of the book the novel of Virginia , published in 1985.
the Most beautiful Poems of love: anthology , 2004 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226079963
Hunters of treasures and other flibustiers (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844591108
Pirate and corsairs (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844590756
Runners of the seas , (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844590586
Le Monde according to Jules Verne , Biography - (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2005, ISBN 2856204538
France seen of the sky , - Comments of 230 photographs of photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2005
Confessions, - Conversations with Serge Raffy, 2005, Lgf
To disappear , (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2006 Gallimard, ISBN 2070779661
Dreamers of the Seas , (joint author Olivier Pepper of Arvor), 2007 Place des Victoires, ISBN 9782253115458
I so much dreamed of you , (joint author Olivier Poivre of Arvor), 2007 Albin Michel, ISBN 9782226179777. This book was presented in first selection for the Prix Goncourt 2007.

Caricature

October 29th, 1982, he is shown in the Court of obvious are delirious where Pierre Desproges speaks about the book the Children of the paddle of PPDA (which he calls " To me pepper initially " passes; , even " Show also mustard while you there es" …).

The puppet (named by derision of its initial “PPD”) became the only one to present the satirical newspaper Guignols of information since 1989 on the television channel Canal+. Its cowardices in front of the powerful ones and kindnesses with regard to the capacity and of information spectacle do of them one of the favorite Turk heads of the Réalisateur S and Scénariste S of which Bruno Gaccio. It is the imitator Yves Lecoq who lends his voice to him.

Patrick Poivre d' Arvor has in her turn lent her voice, to play a Journaliste which comments on in Voice-over images " of Topicality S " in the Cartoon indestructibles the of 2004 of the studios Pixar.

See too

List of presenters of tv news in France
List of the presenters of the 20 hour old Newspaper of literary France 2
Television program in France
Put in scene of the political power

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