Léon Zitrone
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Léon Zitrone (left)
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| Born | 25 November 1914 Petrograd, Russia |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris, France[1] |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.
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Biography
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). In 1959, he joined the television activity of RTF. From 1961, he became news presenter, function he occupied for nearly 20 years, first until 1975, on the first French television channel (now TF1), then also on Antenne 2, the other public service channel. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach called him back in 1979. He then took charge of the news program during the week-end (his contract was established until 1 February 1981). He would come back for those news programs also during the Easter and Pentecost week-ends.
But Léon Zitrone's celebrity is due to the programs he presented or co-presented. He was host of the televised program Intervilles (French counterpart of England's It's a Knockout) with Guy Lux. He commented 6 times the Tour de France, and he is remembered for his prodigious memory for names of riders. He presented the Olympics for 8 times, commented the Eurovision Song Contest on 4 occasions and presented 16 Bastille Day military parades. Above all, he was the key-commenter for big events, such as weddings, burials or investitures of world's key figures, some thirty of them during the course of his career.[citation needed]
In 1978, following French singer Marie Myriam's victory the previous year, the Eurovision song contest took place in Paris. Léon Zitrone co-presented with Denise Fabre and made the presentation in English.[citation needed]
Death
He died on his 81st bithday, 25 November 1995, at the Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris.[1]
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| Preceded by | Eurovision Song Contest presenter (with Denise Fabre) 1978 |
Succeeded by Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi |
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- 1914 births
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- French journalists
- French television journalists
- French reporters and correspondents
- French people of Russian-Jewish descent
- People from Saint Petersburg
- Russian Jews
- Burials at Levallois-Perret Cemetery
