Roger Gicquel

Roger Gicquel (22 February 1933 in Thiers-sur-Thève in the Oise department – 6 March 2010 in Plouër-sur-Rance in the Côtes-d'Armor) was a French journalist. He presented the 20 hour Journal on the TV channel TF1 from 1975 to 1981. During the 1950s, Gicquel began a career in acting. He was also a flight attendant on the airline UAT from 1953 to 1960 before moving into journalism. He started at the Parisien libéré in Seine-et-Marne in 1961. He started work at the Coulommiers office. On 8 December 1962, he married at Boissy-le-Châtel on the road to Coulommiers. Roger Gicquel sent his reports from his Citroën 2CV. He regularly socialised with his colleagues in the local press from the Freedom of Seine-et-Marne and Country Briard newspapers whom he met at "The Modern" Inn in Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin. Then the newspaper asked him to create the Normandy Morning as a local edition of the Parisien for the Upper Normandy region. He also wrote for other local publications in Elbeuf and Les Andelys, ...