Laurent Ruquier paid a moving tribute to journalist and author Claude Sarraute, who died at the age of 95 on Tuesday June 20.
It is with emotion that Laurent Ruquier wanted to pay tribute to the journalist and writer Claude Sarraute, who died on June 20 at the age of 95. At the microphone of the Big Heads, the host remembered his former collaborator and friend: “She joined me on France Inter in the 90s and it’s been going on for thirty years, finally it lasted”.
Laurent Ruquier struggled to hide his emotion by evoking Claude Sarraute on Tuesday: “A lot of memories come back to me, sorry, I have a lot of trouble. She was one of the first free women, perhaps more feminist than you wouldn’t imagine. She had so much to tell.” A special broadcast of the Big Heads was then organized a few hours later on Tuesday. The opportunity for Laurent Ruquier to talk about their first meeting at France Inter on the occasion of the release of his book Ah! love always Love : “I see it as a sign because this love will have lasted 30 years from the day I met her”.
Biography of Laurent Ruquier – Born February 24, 1963 in Le Havre, Laurent Ruquier is a jack-of-all-trades: sometimes on the radio, sometimes on television, he is also a playwright and producer of one-man shows. It was in the spring of 1988 that Laurent Ruquier’s career started when he was hired by Jacques Martin’s team on Europe 1. After having given up his civil service, he was also on stage in Paris at the Caveau de la République . It was the following year that he made his first appearance on television in La Classe on France 3. Then, in 1991, he became an animator for France Inter with Nothing to wax. He will remain six years in the public service station before being hired at Europe 1 from 1999 to 2014.
During this period, he rose to prominence on television with, in 2000, the launch of his daily We tried everything on France 2, a channel he has not left since. The public service owes him in particular On n’demande qu’en rire, a daily newspaper which allows you to discover the talents of many comedians, but also the talk show On n’est pas couch launched in 2006 and which ends in 2020. On the radio, he has taken up the torch from Philippe Bouvard in Les Grosses Têtes on RTL since 2014. Since 2017, he has hosted the program Les Enfants de la Télé on Sundays, and from 2020 to 2022 We are live.