Marie-Sophie Lacarrau (born 20 September 1975 in

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Claire Raynaud
« Marie-Sophie Lacarrau : du Capitole à la capitale »
on ''

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'', 27 December 2015) is a French

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and TV presenter.

Biography

Born in the

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, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau grew up near

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. After high school, she attended a literary college ( lycée Fermat) in

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in 1995, before obtaining a literature degree at the University of Mirail. In 1996, she began internships in the newspapers ''

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'' and ''Le Villefranchois, '' then the TV channels LCI and M6. In 2000, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau began work at the editing department of

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Quercy-Rouergue, then two years later at

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, where she presented her first regional news TV show during the Christmas holidays of 2005. In 2010, she replaced Catherine Matausch on

at weekends and became understudy to

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at the 19/20 national news show.C.L.
« Qui est Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, le visage du nouveau magazine In situ sur France 3 ? »
on ''Télé Loisirs'', 3 February 2016 Since 2016, she has also presented the economy programme ''In Situ'' on

. In the fall of 2016, she succeeded

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as presenter of the news show

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« France 2 : Marie-Sophie Lacarrau récupère le 13 Heures »
on '' PureMédias'', 21 June 2016

Personal life

She married Pierre Bascol on 12 August 2006. She has two children.

References

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