It’s already been two years since Jean-Pierre Pernaut has been with us. And yet, the memory of this great presenter remains alive and well through his wife, Nathalie Marquay, who is also the mother of his two children, Lou and Tom. Guest on the set of It starts today, broadcast on France 2, she returned to the disappearance of her husband. Faced with host Faustine Bollaert, she answered a question that some were asking: why is Jean-Pierre Pernaut not buried in Amiens, in the heart of Picardy where he grew up? The former Miss France therefore revealed that she had discussed several times with her husband about the place where he would be buried. “I wanted to know which cemetery he wanted to go to, I thought he wanted to be buried in Amiens“, she explained before adding: “Many people did not understand why he was not buried in Amiens. Amiens was everything for him.”.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut wanted to rest near his wife
If Nathalie Marquay may have thought that her late husband wanted to rest in Amiens, it was during a conversation with the latter that they raised the subject together, first of all in a humorous tone: “Near our house, there was a cemetery and a rest home. Every time, I messed with him, I told him: ‘if you are not good, I will put you in the rest home. And there , I think the cemetery would be nice, you won’t be far from home'”. Ultimately, it was during this exchange that the couple decided that he would be buried far from his native Picardy lands. “I tell him: ‘Listen, I hope that if anything ever happens to you, you will be buried in this cemetery, me, I don’t see myself traveling miles to go to Amiensfind myself at your grave, it’s way too far […]. He told me ‘you will bury me wherever you want, it is you who will choose, plus our house where we have lived for twenty years is right next door”, explained his late wife. An intimate conversation which once again shows the complicity of this emblematic couple. Finally, it is therefore at the cemetery in Louveciennes in Yvelineslocated in the near suburbs of Paris, that the famous presenter of J.T. of TF1 was buried in 2022. But judging by the tribute that the Picards paid to him upon his death, Jean-Pierre Pernaut remains indeed a child of this region, he who was born in the small village of Quevauvillers and took his first steps as a journalist not far away, at the newspaper The Picard Courier.