Lucien Jarraud
Lucien “ Frenchie ” Jarraud (Paris, September 7th, 1922 - Paris, August 17th, 2007) was a Radio presenter Québécois. It is recognized to have launched the concept of the lines open to the Québécois radio.
Born in Paris, on September 7th, 1922, he enlists in the French Army the day with his 17 years, a few days hardly after the beginning of the Second world war. He will make the countryside of Belgium, where he will be decorated with the Military Cross. Captured by the Germans because of acts of resistance, it is off-set in a camp of work, close to Hamburg, from where it will escape in 1943. It rejoins Paris, where it takes part in reviews.
After having achieved several small trades in the Parisian artistic world - it was used as lining with Pierre Blanchar and Charles Trenet -, it crosses the Atlantique in 1948 to work with the circus Barnum & Bailey, where it makes the turn of North America. It is in this American circus that one it affuble of the nickname Frenchie . It unloads in Montreal in July 1948 and works initially as acrobat, then it takes part in the reviews of Lily Saint-Cyr military school. He also worked during a score of years to CKVL before returning to the microphone of his first station in 2003 - although operated by new owners and at a new frequency. It still animated there an emission of the morning â age the 84 years, a few weeks before its death.
During its long career, it innovated while becoming the first man of radio operator in Quebec to use the technique of the open line , where the organizer discusses in waves subjects topicality with its listeners. People (…) removed their denture for not which one recognizes their voice, because they wanted to speak political, they wanted to speak against (Maurice) Duplessis and all that. But it was not necessary that you speak against Duplessis! , he recalled to a journalist in 2005.
Jarraud also made career on television in the years 1960. He plays in the television serial Love of life , diffused with the antenna of Radio-Canada in addition to animating several television programs with TV-Metropolis, of which Face to face with Claude Lapointe, the Heart on the hand and Toast and Café with Dominique Michel.
The radio presenter and legal chronicler Claude Poirier said of him that it “had given his noble letters to CJMS in the years 1960 and 1970”.
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