Jacqueline Joubert

{{Short description|French television announcer,producer and director}}

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| name = Jacqueline Joubert

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| birth_name = Jacqueline Annette Édith Pierre

| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|03|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|01|08|1921|03|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

| occupation = Television continuity announcer, producer and director

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| children = Antoine de Caunes

| relatives = Emma de Caunes (granddaughter)

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Jacqueline Annette Édith Pierre (29 March 1921 – 8 January 2005), known professionally as Jacqueline Joubert ({{IPA|fr|ʒaklin ʒubɛʁ}}), was a French television continuity announcer,{{Cite news|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2013/09/26/03004-20130926ARTFIG00369-emma-de-caunes-cobaye-de-recre-a2.php|title=Emma de Caunes cobaye de Récré A2|date=2013-09-26|work=Le Figaro|access-date=2017-10-12|language=fr-FR}} producer and director. Alongside Arlette Accart, Joubert was one of the first two in-vision continuity announcers (or speakerines) when television commenced in France after the Second World War.{{Cite book |last=Bourdon |first=Jérôme |url=https://archive.org/details/lagrandeaventure0000unse_m6t8 |title=La grande aventure du petit écran: la télévision française, 1935-1975 |last2=Méadel |first2=Cécile |date=1997 |publisher=Musée d'histoire contemporaine--BDIC avec lesoutien de l'Institut national de l'audiovisuel ; Diffusion, Edition La découverte/Sodis |isbn=978-2-7071-2719-8 |editor-last=Bourdon |editor-first=Jérôme |series=Collection des publications de la BDIC |location=Nanterre : [Paris] |pages=242-243 |language=fr |chapter=Jacqueline Joubert (entretien) |editor-last2= |editor-last3=}}{{Cite book |last=Sauvage |first=Monique |url=https://archive.org/details/histoiredelatele0000sauv |title=Histoire de la télévision française: de 1935 à nos jours |last2=Veyrat-Masson |first2=Isabelle |last3=Poels |first3=Géraldine |date= |publisher=Nouveau Monde |year=2012 |isbn=978-2-84736-632-7 |location=Paris |pages=49-50 |language=fr |trans-title=History of French Television from 1935 to Our Time}}

Life

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She was married to the journalist Georges de Caunes (1953–60),{{Cite book |last=Rambert |first=Catherine |url=https://archive.org/details/desfemmesdinflue0000ramb |title=Des femmes d'influence: pouvoirs et télévision |last2=Maquelle |first2=Sylvie |last3=Baudrier |first3=Jacqueline |date=1991 |publisher=Hachette-Carrère |isbn=978-2-01-018594-6 |location=Paris |pages=176-177 |language=fr}} was the mother of Canal+ TV star Antoine de Caunes, and the grandmother of actress Emma de Caunes. She had also been married to Philippe Lagier. Alongside continuity duties, she presented the {{escyr|1959}} and {{escyr|1961}} editions of the Eurovision Song Contest, both held in Cannes. She began to produce and direct entertainment shows in 1966 before switching to producing children's programming for Antenne 2 from 1977 - in the process, devising the popular magazine show Récré A2 and launching the television career of singer and actress Dorothée. She died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 2005, aged 83.

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