After his departure from 13 hours of TF1 last December, Jean-Pierre Pernaut publishes "33 years with you", an autobiography that looks back on his three decades of news.

Guest of the show "It feels good", he also talks about his other television memories.

And explains what the small screen owes to Christophe Dechavanne.

INTERVIEW

Since his departure from TF1 1 p.m. on December 18, we remember especially Jean-Pierre Pernaut that he held this news for more than thirty years.

An experience he recounts in his book "33 years with you".

But the journalist also presented for 19 years the show

How much it costs, 

produced by Christophe Dechavanne.

In the program 

It

feels

good,

Jean-Pierre Pernaut explains why he considers his former colleague as "a genius" to whom French TV owes a lot.

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"An animation genius"

When Jean-Pierre Pernaut hosted the first issue of 

How much it costs

in 1991, it was the first program that Christophe Dechavanne produced without presenting it.

Pernaut will animate it for 19 years, alone or accompanied by Isabelle Quenin, Laurence Ferrari, Sophie Thalmann or Evelyne Thomas.

"I was called the PLD of the PAF, the long-term presenter", laughs today the person concerned.

For him, the success of the show (awarded a 7 d'or and available as a board game) is due to its producer.

"I write it in the book, Dechavanne is a genius of animation and presentation", he believes.

"At the time, he made up a lot of things on TV. We remember

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where it was going all over the place. He was an animation genius."

The invention of evolving sets

During their years of collaboration, Jean-Pierre Pernaut remembers that Christophe Dechavanne was constantly overflowing with new ideas. "I had an earpiece on the first show, as much to tell you that I left it ten minutes before removing it. screamed in control 'Do this, do that, get on the table!'

But I was not going to do Dechavanne, "smiles the journalist.

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Other ideas of Christophe Dechavanne are passed down to posterity.

To the point that we forget that they were not born with television.

"He was the one who invented the evolving sets," said Jean-Pierre Pernaut.

"When you see Christmas trees today in a broadcast setting in winter, or fruit trees in summer, you think it has always existed. But it was Jean Dechavanne who invented it!"

The question of public spending

But Christophe Dechavanne, these are not just light ideas.

We know his commitment to Sidaction and the fight against HIV.

With 

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, it makes monitoring the expenditure of public funds a central topic of television.

"He was passionate about the seriousness of the show, because they were economic reports. We were talking about money, so it was not a question of laughing," recalls Jean-Pierre Pernaut.

According to the journalist, public money then tended to be badly spent.

"They were billions of francs wasted on bridges" or roundabouts, he explains.

Jean-Pierre Pernaut still regrets the stopping of 

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.

"The show is scheduled to restart today because people are still passionate about money, and especially public money."