The friendly and very polite tone with which he hosted the television show “Questions à domicile”, with Anne Sinclair, on TF1, at the end of the 1980s, marked the memory of viewers of that time. And few of them could have imagined that Pierre-Luc Séguillon (1940-2010), one of the great names in political journalism, with such a respectable appearance, was also very appreciated by Moscow and Soviet intelligence, for which it seems to have been a “confidential contact”. It is one of the surprises still contained in the KGB archives, transmitted in 1992 by the defector Vassili Mitrokhine, that The World consulted at Churchill College, Cambridge, England.
Originally, his first name was Pierre, and not Pierre-Luc, and this evolution owes a lot to his Christian faith. The journey of this man born in Nancy in 1940 remains unique, between religion and politics, entirely on the left. After obtaining several degrees (philosophy, theology, Arabic) and a diploma from the Institute of Oriental Letters in Beirut, he was destined for the priesthood in the 1960s in Lyon. Becoming “Brother Luc”, he was ordained on June 30, 1968. But this commitment was short-lived. Without renouncing his faith, he left the Dominicans two years later to marry and start a family.
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