Roger Gicquel
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Roger Gicquel was a French journalist. He introduced log 20 hours of TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

 between 1974 and 1981.

Biography

During the 1950s, Roger Gicquel began a career in acting. He was also steward the airline UTA from 1953 to 1960 before moving into journalism.

He goes first to Parisien Libere in Seine-et-Marne 1961. It Coulsdon it starts. On December 8, 1962, he married Boissy-le-Chatel on the road to Coulsdon. Roger Gicquel sent home reports 2CV. He attended his colleagues in the local press, the Freedom of Seine-et-Marne and Country Briard he found at the inn "The Modern" in Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin. Then The newspaper asked create Normandy Morning, The local edition Parisian in Haute-Normandie. It has among others bear the local offices of Tweed and AndelysThen those of Évreux, Louviers and Vernon.

In 1971, he left Normandy Morning to become a consultant for two years for UNICEF. Then he served as chief information officer of the ORTF.

Encouraged to make radio Roland Dhordain Founder France Inter Roger Gicquel joined the station and created the magazine that presents news from 1968 to 1973. There is also a reporter in 1969.

In 1974, he became a newscaster on 20 hours TF1 despite his total lack of experience. Competing Antenna 2 The chain asked to "Embody the Information to better differentiate themselves and retain the public. Each evening, Roger Gicquel began his newspaper by an editorial in which he gives his opinion. This customization, which has subsequently appeared outdated, marks the transition to the antenna Roger Gicquel, watched nightly by millions of French. Inspired by journalist Walter Cronkite, News of the American channel CBS News He claims its independence vis-à-vis political power and its outspokenness "I pretended that could open the newspaper on a tidal wave in the Ganges delta even without images rather than the birth of a calf in a zoo aquatic Tokyo". Ladislas de Hoyos, Star presenter logs weekend TF1 from 1990 to 1991, will follow the same approach.

It is particularly famous for its opening sentence of the newspaper 20 hours 18 February 1976: "France has fear" Which underlines the emotion of the kidnapping and death of small Troyes by Philippe Bertrand Patrick Henry. This formula is truncated, however, because few minutes later, he said that this fear is a feeling which we must not give up.

Abandoning the presentation of television news in 1981, Roger Gicquel then held several positions at TF1. He directed and produced major news stories and documentaries, while taking a chronic Europe 1 until 1982. It is up to TF1 in 1983, presentation and production of the show Wandering in which he receives cultural personalities in particular. He left the chain in 1986 At the time of privatization. From 1987 to 1994, he returned with France Inter Press Review of the weekend.

In 1994, he made his return to television at the request of Jean-Pol Guguen, director of the regional station France 3 Ouest, Where he hosted and produced every Saturday Strolling. In total, 182 issues of this magazine, with the participation of 1,200 witnesses are available to the splendours and curiosities, but also the ugliness (pollution, urban) places often ignored in western France, theIlle-et-Vilaine to Vendee.

Gicquel died in Plouër-sur-Rance near Saint-Malo in Cotes d'Armor March 6, 2010 at the age of 77 years as a result of a heart attack. He is buried in the same city.

Personal life and commitments

Roger Gicquel was the son of shopkeepers. His father was originally Breton Region in which young Roger grew up. As a teenager he dreamed of becoming a writer.

Roger Gicquel chooses 1997 the Rancid in Cotes d'Armor to settle. Returning to Britain after his career as a journalist, producer and presenter, he writes books which shone through his passion for this region.

Throughout the 2000s, he campaigned alongside Green and party autonomy Breton,Breton Democratic Union. He contributes regularly to the magazine Le Peuple Breton. He is a member of the Water and Rivers Association of Britain, which militates against including green algae.

Honours

Roger Gicquel was a chevalier (knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite
Ordre National du Mérite
The Ordre national du Mérite is an Order of State awarded by the President of the French Republic. It was founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle...

(National Order of Merit).
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