Jacques Martin (TV host)
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Jacques Martin (22 June 1933 – 14 September 2007) was a French television host and producer.


Life and career

Martin was born in
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. In the late 1960s, he formed a comical duet of hosts on radio
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with French actor
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. In the early 1970s, he was the sidekick of Danièle Gilbert, the host of ''Midi Première''. Martin created and hosted such popular satirical TV shows such as ''Le Petit Rapporteur'' ("The Little Snitch, 1975–1976, TF1) and ''La Lorgnette'' ("The Opera Glasses", 1976–1977,
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). He also tried a film career, writing and directing one film (''Na !'', 1973) and playing in others such as ''
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'', without great success. An operetta fan, he enjoyed presenting TV shows mixing popular and classical music, such as ''Musique and music'', which he prepared with the help of French composer , invariably singing a few operetta arias himself during the show. He was a great discoverer of talents throughout his career, with future successes such as
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or . He was also good at creating new concepts for television shows, the most famous being ''Le Petit Rapporteur'' and '' L'École des Fans''. He was particularly apt at interacting with small children on television, which was the reason of the success of ''L'École des Fans''. On a side note, ''L'École des Fans'' was the first television appearance of French singer
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, in 1980; she was 7 years old. He was a regular of the radio show ''
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''. He was also an admirer of
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, whom he liked to quote and whose mannerisms he tried to emulate. Until 1998, he hosted the entire afternoon of
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on Sundays, with a show called ''Dimanche Martin''.


Illness/death

Martin died, aged 74, from cancer, on 14 September 2007 in the
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,
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, where he had settled. He is buried in
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in Lyon.


Family and children

He was married and divorced twice; his second wife,
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, was the second wife of French
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and France's first lady. He had eight children from four different women all of whom survived him: *with his first wife Anne Lefèvre, he had two children: David Martin, cook and television host and Élise Martin. *with actress Danièle Évenou, he had two sons: Frédéric Martin, a radio host, and Jean-Baptiste Martin, actor. *with his second wife
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, he had two daughters: Judith Martin and Jeanne-Marie Martin. *with his last wife, Céline Boisson, he had two children: Juliette Martin and Clovis Martin.


External links

*
AP Jacques Martin Obituary
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