Jacqueline Joubert (29 March 1921 – 8 January 2005), born Jacqueline Annette Édith Pierre, was a French television

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, 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

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She was married to the journalist

Georges de Caunes Louis Georges Gustave de Caunes (26 April 1919 – 28 June 2004), professionally known as Georges de Caunes, was a French television and radio presenter, journalist, writer and producer whose career spanned over six decades in French language telev ...

(1953–60), was the mother of

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TV star

Antoine de Caunes Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline ...

, and the grandmother of actress

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. She had also been married to Philippe Lagier. Alongside continuity duties, she presented the 1959 and 1961

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s from

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. She began to produce and direct entertainment shows in 1966 before switching to producing children's programming for

Antenne 2 France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews. Since 3:20 CET on 7 Ap ...

between 1970 and 1980 - in the process, devising the popular magazine show ''

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'' and launching the television career of singer and actress

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. She died in

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, France in 2005, aged 83.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1951) * '' First Criminal Brigade'' (1962)

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