1. Georges Alexis Denis Marie Pernoud was a French journalist, television presenter and television producer.
11 Facts About Georges Pernoud
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Georges Pernoud is known for presenting his television documentary Thalassa, that he presented from 1980 to 2017.
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Georges Pernoud was born on 11 April 1947 in Rabat, during the second French colonial empire, and more precisely in the French Protectorate in Morocco.
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Georges Pernoud was from a journalist's family, by his father Rene and his uncle Georges.
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Georges Pernoud's aunts are the historian Regine Pernoud and the literature director Laurence Pernoud.
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Georges Pernoud began his career as a camera operator at the ORTF in 1968.
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Georges Pernoud participated at two expeditions of Haroun Tazieff in Congo at the volcanic crater of Nyiragongo and in Ethiopia on the plain of Dallol.
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Georges Pernoud made his very first appearance on television on 25 November 1973 in the daily news on the second channel of the ORTF titled 24 heures sur la Une.
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Georges Pernoud proposed on 4 June 1975 the project for Thalassa, a weekly documentary dedicated to the sea, which was accepted two days later.
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Georges Pernoud then became the presenter of Thalassa on 4 January 1980.
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Georges Pernoud died on 10 January 2021 of Alzheimer's disease in a hospital of the Parisian region.