Patrick Poivre d’Arvor: who is Véronique Courcoux, the mother of six of his children?

It was at age 15 that Patrick Poivre d’Arvor met true love in the arms of Véronique Courcoux. It was in Trégastel, in Brittany, that the lovebirds fell in love with each other. She worked there as a teacher since she was 20 years old, and he used to spend his holidays there. A year later, the lovers gave birth to their first child. The journalist was then only 16 years old and the couple was not married. “There was a bit of a rough patch. It was frankly difficult for my parents, as for Véronique’s parents. We can’t say that it was received exceptionally, as today we would, no“, had confided Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, to Frédéric Lopez in the program The unexpected parenthesisin 2014, on France 2.

Véronique Courcoux, who will then give birth to five other childrenmade the decision to quit work to focus on raising their children. With the journalist, she therefore gave birth to six children: Dorothée, the eldest, Arnaud, born in 1972, Tiphaine, born in 1974, Solenn, born in 1975, Garance, born in 1980 and Morgane, born in 1981. Durant their marriage, the lovebirds experienced many dramas with the death of three of their children.

Véronique Courcoux has an unconventional life with Patrick Poivre d’Arvor

With Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, the mother of the family has known a life as a couple far from being conventional. For good reason, the journalist had many conquests and had a long affair with Claire Chazal while he was still married to Véronique Courcoux. Today, although they never revealed their divorce officially, they both seem to be following different paths.