The 84-year-old political journalist will retire at the end of the season he began this Monday, September 2 on BFMTV.
Alain Duhamel, 84, a political journalist whose voice and face have accompanied the public for over 50 years, announced that he was making his “last” return to media school this Monday, September 2, on BFMTV, where he works.
“It’s the last (back to school) school,” assured the columnist. “I started in 1965, I had to divorce either BFMTV or my wife.”
“In 1965, for my first visible achievement, I wrote a series of two articles in two consecutive days in Le Monde on the sociology of General De Gaulle’s electorates,” he recalled on our set.
“Which caused me my first problem with the Minister of Information at the time, Alain Peyrefitte, who was not happy at all because, in essence, I had written that General De Gaulle represented the people but that the popular classes did not vote for him.”
Over 50 years of television
He dates his debut “on TV, with a show, in 1970 when I was 30 years old”. BFMTV has also unearthed images of a televised intervention in 1967. “It was for the show ‘Lectures pour tous’, I had written with Jacques Fauvet, at the time editor-in-chief of Le Monde, a history of the Communist Party in two volumes”. And for the needs of a debate in Readings for allJacques Fauvet “preferred” that it be the young Alain Duhamel who takes charge of it.
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Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, author of around twenty works, pillar of teaching at Sciences-Po, Alain Duhamel began his career by covering the 1960s and the Gaullist regime, then the seven successive presidencies, from Georges Pompidou to Emmanuel Macron.
He co-hosted several famous television shows such as “À armes égales” (1970s, first channel), “Cartes sur table” (1977-81, Antenne 2), “L’heure de vérité” (1980s and 1990s, France 2) or “100 minutes pour croire” (2002-05, France 2).
Alain Duhamel joined BFMTV in 2019 where he has his own section within the show BFM Story called Face à Duhamel. He will be the guest of Face to face this Tuesday at 8:35 a.m. on BFMTV and RMC.
