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"He accompanied the 20-hour papers of TF1 for a five-year, a seven-year term and even before." Friday, Claire Chazal was the guest of "Culture Media" on Europe 1 to talk about his experience as a political journalist with Jacques Chirac, died Thursday at the age of 86 years.
"I wrote a book about Balladur and he put me in this clan"
And the former presenter of the JT remembers a certain coldness. "I always felt that there was a form of distance he established with me, I was closer to Bernadette Chirac." The reason for this restraint? "I wrote a book about Edouard Balladur and he put me in this clan," Claire Chazal guesses. "He thought that at TF1, maybe there was support for Edouard Balladur."
Beyond this very personal relationship with the ex-statesman, whom the presenter has never interviewed as president but always as a candidate, Claire Chazal remembers a "complex, mysterious, warm and sometimes distant ". "He was someone who had a breath, a humanity, he was a man of culture, even if he hid it out of modesty," she says.
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