Laure Leprieur
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Laure Leprieur was a radio personality in France
, although she never participated in a radio show. She gained nationwide fame under the name Madame Leprieur d'Agon-Coutainville and was also nicknamed Madame «80 000 Questions». She created questions in her free time for the popular French radio show Les Grosses Têtes
, which is broadcast every weekday afternoon by RTL
.
The principle of this show is that the anonymous listeners send cultural or obscure questions to the famous guests of the day (actors, comedians and entertainers), and get a small cash prize if the question is not answered correctly. Of course the questions are just a pretext for the guests to exercise their wit and good humor.
In fact, Madame Leprieur did not remain anonymous. From 1977 to 1998, Laure Leprieur, who lived in Agon-Coutainville
, Normandy
, sent more than 80,000 questions to Les Grosses Têtes guests and won about 150,000 French franc
s in cash prizes. Her questions were written in a total of fifty notebooks which her son Michel has kept. In order to send her questions to RTL, Laure Leprieur mailed a letter every day, always with the same number of sheets - five - corresponding to the maximum weight allowed by the postal rate she used.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, although she never participated in a radio show. She gained nationwide fame under the name Madame Leprieur d'Agon-Coutainville and was also nicknamed Madame «80 000 Questions». She created questions in her free time for the popular French radio show Les Grosses Têtes
Les Grosses Têtes
Les Grosses Têtes is a daily French radio program on the RTL French radio network, created by Jean Farran and Roger Krecher on 1 April 1977. The host is Philippe Bouvard....
, which is broadcast every weekday afternoon by RTL
RTL (French radio)
In France, RTL is a popular nation-wide commercial radio network owned by the RTL Group.In 1931, Radio Luxembourg, the public radio network from Luxembourg, was privatised. Beginning in 1946, it could be heard easily in France. Until the 1980s, only the French public radio networks could transmit...
.
The principle of this show is that the anonymous listeners send cultural or obscure questions to the famous guests of the day (actors, comedians and entertainers), and get a small cash prize if the question is not answered correctly. Of course the questions are just a pretext for the guests to exercise their wit and good humor.
In fact, Madame Leprieur did not remain anonymous. From 1977 to 1998, Laure Leprieur, who lived in Agon-Coutainville
Agon-Coutainville
Agon-Coutainville is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.-Heraldry:...
, Normandy
Normandy
Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
, sent more than 80,000 questions to Les Grosses Têtes guests and won about 150,000 French franc
French franc
The franc was a currency of France. Along with the Spanish peseta, it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra . Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money...
s in cash prizes. Her questions were written in a total of fifty notebooks which her son Michel has kept. In order to send her questions to RTL, Laure Leprieur mailed a letter every day, always with the same number of sheets - five - corresponding to the maximum weight allowed by the postal rate she used.
Examples of questions by Madame Leprieur
- Who is Charley Michaelis? — A.: The baby in the Cadum soap vintage print ad (Cadum is a brand of French soap).
- What is an engastrimyth? — A.: A ventriloquist.
- What is ailurophobia? — A.: A fear of cats.
- Which animal species mate ventrally, but upside down ? — A.: The earthworm.