Frédéric Courant (born 14 April 1960 in

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the prov ...

) is a French journalist, well known from the educational TV show ''

C'est pas sorcier ''C'est pas sorcier'' (literally ''It's Not Sorcery'', French for "it's not rocket science") was a popular France, French live-action, science education television program that originally aired from September 19, 1993, to February 1, 2014. In tota ...

'' that he presented with Jamy Gourmaud and

Sabine Quindou Sabine Quindou (born 1970) is a French journalist, known for having co-hosted the popular science education TV show ''C'est pas sorcier'' (It's not rocket science) with Jamy Gourmaud and Frédéric Courant, produced by France 3. She presented, f ...

and was produced from the channel

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. He attended the high school in Angers. He holds a postgraduate degree in international law. He was a journalist in the newspapers ''l'Evénement du jeudi'' and ''Quotidien de Paris'' from 1985 to 1989. His experience in television began in 1989 when he became editor of ''Canal Santé''. In 1992, he joined France 3, where he is editor and presenter of "Fractales". On September 1994 he presented the program ''C'est Pas Sorcier'' a science magazine in which he is an author, editor and co-presenter. Since November 2001 he is author and presenter of the historical adventure magazine ''Quelle aventure!''on the channel

. He participates with Renato Rinaldi and Caroline to the protection of cetaceans in the Caribbean since 1992. Asteroid 23882 Fredcourant is named after him. On May 11, 2011, he received with Jamy Gourmaud the insignia of doctor honoris causa at the University of Mons (Belgium). On December 9, 2011, he received the "Prix du chef d'état-major de la Marine" with Jamy Gourmaud.

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