Journalist, film critic, and television presenter, born in Reims, NE France. He has become the best-known journalist in television, as a presenter of Journal de 20 heures since 1976, and joint director of TFI since 1989.
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (born Patrick Poivre, September 20, 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer.
Biography
Patrick Poivre was born in Reims, France. Patrick Poivre attended the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, where he studied Law and Oriental Languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Journalistic career
PPDA started training as a journialist at the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) at 22, he obtained his first job in 1971 on France Inter, as the morning news-reader.
After 30 years as news anchor, it is believed Patrick Poivre d'Arvor holds the record for longest-serving unretired presenter of a television news programme anywhere in the world.
On January 10, 1996, the Court of Appeal sentenced Poivre to 15 months in prison (suspended) and fined 200,000 French Francs for his part in the misappropriation of public funds in the case
involving Pierre Botton and his father-in-law and then Deputy Mayor of Lyon Michel Noir).
Personal life
He is married to Véronique, with whom he has had four daughters. In December 2004, Bernadette Chirac, wife of the French President Jacques Chirac, whose daughter has also suffered from the disorder, opened a new treatment centre in Paris for adolescents with the condition and named it “Maison de Solenn” in memory of Poivre d'Arvor's late daughter.
Nonetheless, Poivre d'Arvor caused controversy by presenting his regular news bulletin the very next evening after Solenn's death.
Controversies in his private life
For several years in the 1990s, rumours abounded that Poivre d'Arvor had had an affair with Claire Chazal, his weekend counterpart as TF1 8pm news anchor. The pair always steadfastly refused to confirm the story until August 2005, when Poivre d'Arvor acknowledged that he was the father of Chazal's 10-year-old son, François, in "Confessions", a book of interviews which PPDA gave to French journalist Serge Raffy. Lattès, ISBN 2709601486 Les Femmes de ma vie, 1988 France Loisirs L'homme d'image, 1992 Flammarion, ISBN 2080668021 Lettres à l'absente 1993 Albin Michel Les loups et la bergerie, 1994 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226069879 Elle n'était pas d'ici, 1995 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226078460 Un Héros de passage, 1996 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226085637 Une trahison amoureuse, 1997 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226093567 Lettre ouverte aux violeurs de vie privee, 1997 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226092048 La Fin du monde 1998 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226100091 Petit Homme, 1999 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226106588 L'Irrésolu, 2000 Albin Michel ISBN 2226116702, - Interallié Prize winner in 2001 Les rats de garde (co-author Eric Zemmour) 2000 Stock, ISBN 2234052173 Le Roman de Virginie, 2001 J'ai lu, ISBN 2277220809 Un enfant, 2001 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226126082 La Traversée du miroir, 2002 Balland, ISBN 271581416X J'ai aimé une reine, 2003 Editions Fayard, ISBN 2213615624 Courriers de nuit : La Légende de Mermoz et de Saint-Exupéry, (co-author Olivier Poivre d'Arvor), 2003 Place des Victoires, ISBN 2844590454 La mort de Don Juan, 2004 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226154000 Frères et soeur, 2004 Balland, ISBN 2715814828 Les plus beaux poemes d'amour anthologie, 2004 Albin Michel, ISBN 2226079963 Chasseurs de trésors et autres flibustiers (co-author Olivier Poivre d'Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844591108 Pirates et corsaires (co-author Olivier Poivre d'Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844590756 Coureurs des mers, (co-author Olivier Poivre d'Arvor), 2005 Place Des Victoires Eds, ISBN 2844590586 Disparaître (co-author Olivier Poivre d'Arvor), 2006 Gallimard, ISBN 2070779661
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