Patrice Carmouze is strict about the privacy of his private life. However, this essential of the French audiovisual industry is married to a renowned journalist. Who is she ?
Patrice Carmouze who has turned 71 on October 26, is of the shy type, but above all reserved. A well-established character in the French audiovisual field, his notoriety came mainly from his television tribulations with Christophe Dechavanneexplains the Gala. A renowned journalist, this path was not, however, the one to which he had predestined himself. After all, this great character has a bachelor’s degree in letters as well as a master’s degree in law, according to GW Geneanet. Initially, he dreamed of being a lawyerbut will instead become journalist and editor at Daily of Paris in the 1980s. Between its first discovery by the public in the Sky Notepad, My Tuesday!alongside Christophe Dechavanne, Michel Field and Renaud Rahard, he has come a long way as in the show Right bank / Left bank on Paris Premiere, A Carmouze, three quarters culture or The Celebrity Farm on TF1, always alongside his friend Christophe Dechavanne.
If his professional life is well known, his personal life is all that is more discreet. It is rare that he confides in his private life, if only his childhood alongside her father, an accountant and of his mother engaged in politics. “We rarely talk about your family. Why ?“, had asked him the journalists of France Info during an interview. “I do not know. I had a fairly political family at heart. My mother had responsibilities in Françoise Giroud’s office, she fought a lot for feminism, in particular.“, replied Patrice Carmouze. However, in this great family discretion, it is important to note that Patrice Carmouze is also married to a renowned journalist who works in a major economic daily, Marie-France Genest.
Patrice Carmouze: “I had no desire to do television”
Besides his wife, of whom he speaks very little, Patrice Carmouze, 71, is just as discreet about his two sons, Victorborn in 1990 and Florentborn in 1992. It should be noted that these two big boys, one of whom has a degree in computer engineering and the other who studied at ESMOD, are the fruit of the journalist’s relationship with Catherine Chatignouxaccording Gw Geneanet. This discretion, which is above all reserved for his family life, he willingly puts aside to talk about his career. During an interview at Gala in 2021, Patrice Carmouze had confided that he had never foreseen this 180° turnaround in his career.
“I really did this for fun”, he confided, adding: “I had no desire to do television nor any idea of doing so. Me, my thing was to write basically and I did that without realizing the significance that it could have“.”Which means it made me, indeed, an image of clumsy, etc. I did TV for fun. I hadn’t even perceived the strength of the image it could have.“, added Patrice Carmouze, referring to the impact of his decision.