The world of television has lost one of its own. Georges Pernoud is dead "in a hospital in the Paris region following a long illness", as announced by her daughter Fanny via a press release sent to Agence France Presse, Monday January 11, 2021. He was 73 years old. A key figure in the French audiovisual landscape, Georges Pernoud had notably created and hosted the cult show Thalassa, and this for 42 years. The journalist, who had said his farewell to the program on a rant in 2017 after four decades, had taken his first steps in the profession as a cameraman at the ORTF, in 1968, with, among others, the sixty demonstrations. eightards. It was around this time, in 1972 to be more precise, that he met Monique, his only wife and mother of his two children, Fanny and Julie.
"At 25, her development is confirmed both in front of the camera and in front of a church altar"
Friday January 15, France 3 broadcast, in prime time, a documentary dedicated to this adulated TV man, entitled Georges Pernoud, the man who loved the sea. An incredible tribute that allowed fans and other viewers to learn more about the character. In particular, we could see images (above) of the marriage of Georges and Monique Pernoud, in 1973. "At 25, her development is confirmed both in front of the camera and in front of a church altar", slips the voice-over. “This young brunette woman is Monique, the only woman in his life that he marries just a year after meeting her. A summer of 1972. ” A poignant sequence that undoubtedly moves the Pernoud family. Together, the couple gave birth to two daughters: Fanny, born in 1975 – the year he began presenting Thalassa – and Julie, born in 1978. Her children have also followed their father's path, hardly straying from her profession, since one is a journalist and the other a production manager. As reported France Blue, a final tribute will be paid to Georges Pernoud in the town of Monestier, in the Dordogne, on Saturday January 16. A ceremony chaired by his friend Jean Bonnefon. Interment of the coffin in the town cemetery will take place “In the strictest privacy of the family.”
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