Journalist Dominique Lagrou Sempere shared a moving message on Wednesday March 9 in tribute to her friend Jean-Pierre Pernaut. They had worked together on the 13H news from TF1 for 20 years, from 2001 to 2021.
“I told you everything on Sunday, before leaving you for the last time. I am relieved knowing that you are too now.” The evening of the funeral Jean-Pierre Pernauthis sidekick and journalist Dominique Lagrou Sempere shared a heartbreaking message. A message that testifies to his friendship and his strong ties that they had woven over the years, working together from 2001 to 2021 on the JT of 13H of TF1. “Soothed. That’s what I keep of your beautiful sleeping face”writes the journalist again in a message shared on Wednesday March 9 on her Twitter account.
Dominique Lagrou Sempere remembers their years of collaboration on TF1, but also the hard knocks. The death of her husband Claude following cancerin 2019, through which Jean-Pierre Pernaut had supported herensuring his presence at the funeral of the father of his two children in Villa d’Avray. “He didn’t take his eyes off my daughter and my son, no matter how tears were streaming down his face”, can we still read. An empathy, but also a strength that his former sidekick particularly underlined. “Jean-Pierre did not lack courage, even if it is true that he told me, not very long ago, that he had been ‘very stupid’ for not having quit smoking sooner. Not brave…”can we still read.
An unprecedented relationship between Pernaut and its audience
The funeral of Jean-Pierre Pernaut took place in the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris on Wednesday March 9. His wife NOTathalie marquay, as well as her 4 children, appeared united. For more than 30 years, the journalist had presented the daily 1 p.m. news from TF1, forever entering the hearts of the French. French people present for this final goodbye, near the church.
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Dominique Lagrou-Sempere
Dominique Lagrou-Sempere worked with Pernaut for many years
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Dominique Lagrou-Sempere
In a long message, she remembered their collaboration
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Dominique Lagrou-Sempere
Dominique Lagrou-Sempere left TF1’s 1 p.m. news in 2021
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She took office in 2001.
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Portrait of Dominique Lagrou-Sempere
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut died on March 2, 2022
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Inauguration of the Fête des Loges 2017 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. July 1, 2017
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut died after a long battle with cancer
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut was 71 years old
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Premiere of the play “Double Jeu” at the Gymnase Marie Bell theater in Paris on February 5, 2020.
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Nathalie Marquay during the rehearsal of the theater play “La Tête Dans Les Etoiles” at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse in Paris, France, on May 24, 2018.
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Premiere of the play “Double Jeu” at the Gymnase Marie Bell theater in Paris on February 5, 2020.
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Marie-Sophie Lacarrau and Jean-Pierre Pernaut
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau replaced Jean-Pierre Pernaut at the head of 13H