Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
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Patrick Poivre d'Arvor at the Cannes Film Festival
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| Born |
Patrick Poivre 20 September 1947 Reims, France |
| Education | Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales: non graduate. |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Notable credit(s) |
, on TF1, Vol de Nuit on TF1, La Traversée du miroir on France 5 |
| Spouse(s) | Véronique Poivre |
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (French pronunciation: [patʁik pwavʁ daʁvɔʁ]; 20 September 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed PPDA. With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he was one of the longest serving newsreaders in the world until he was fired in 2008. He presented his last newscast on TF1 on 10 July 2008.
Patrick Poivre was born in Reims, France. He obtained his Baccalauréat at 15, the year he became a father. He then studied Law and Oriental Languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. Poivre claims to be descended directly from Jacques Poivre, brother of Pierre Poivre, an 18th-century nobleman in the time of Louis XV, "d'Arvor" being Jacques Poivre's pseudonym. Poivre, his siblings and his three surviving children legally changed their surname to Poivre d'Arvor in 1994.
Poivre started training as a journalist at the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) at 22. He obtained his first job in 1971 on France Inter as morning newsreader.
In 1974, at the time of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's accession to the Presidency, Poivre joined Antenne 2. He made his first TV appearance there in 1975, and was presenter for news bulletins from 16 February 1976 to 28 July 1983. After a brief stint with Canal+, he joined TF1 in 1986 for the Sunday program A la folie pas du tout and Ex Libris, from Frederic Lepage.
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