The former chronicler of Europe 1 and TF1, removed from the plateaux for several years, has cultivated his garden to the end.
Raymond Mondet died at the age of 89, reveals Le Parisien . Behind this first name and this name hides "Nicolas the gardener", famous mustachioed chronicler of the 1980s.
First at the helm of the magazine Rustica, for 25 years, he made the heyday of Europe 1 on the radio, then TF1 and La Cinq, on television, until the 1990s.
"Nicolas the gardener left us this week to join the garden of paradise. We will miss him ... " , announced his family on Facebook.
"Gardening is health"
Born in 1928, "Nicolas the gardener" had graduated from the school of horticulture of the city of Paris to launch his career after the war.
"Gardening is health. Do like me, you will be happy, you will find balance and joie de vivre " , he confided, good foot, good eye and green hand, in 2002, while he multiplied the conferences on gardening everywhere in France.
A large garden in Seine-Saint-Denis
Commander of the Agricultural Merit, officer of the National Order of Merit, he held the title of gardener four branches and continued, far from the cameras and microphones, to maintain 2,000 m² of garden in Romainville (Saint-Denis).
TF1 had found it a few years ago for a report broadcast in the newspaper of 1 pm.
But where did this nickname "Nicolas the gardener" come from? It is the publisher Georges Dargaud, who had bought Rustica in 1969, who had the idea.