He is one of the monuments of journalism in France. One of the pillars of television, too. Yesterday, on BFMTV – where he works as a consultant and columnist – Alain Duhamel announced that this is his last season on the air. He will then retire, after sixty years of a brilliant career.
“I had to get a divorce, either from BFM or from my wife,” Alain Duhamel said humorously. “It’s my last day back at school.”
Although he made his first appearances on television in 1967, Alain Duhamel – who began his career as a journalist at “Le Monde” in 1963 – really took up residence on the small screen three years later “with a show in 1970, when I was 30 years old.”
A formidable interviewer, Alain Duhamel has participated in a number of unforgettable political TV shows, such as “À armes égales”, “Cartes sur table”, “Mots croisés”, “Question ouverte”, “100 minutes pour croire” and, of course, the legendary “Heure de vérité”.
He also co-hosted the famous presidential debates between Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand (in 1974), and Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin (in 1995).
