The French Barbara Walters

Claire Chazal enchants TF1 and the evening news for years and nobody's going to complain about it. For our American friends, she is the equivalent of Barbara Walters.
Claire Chazal, born on 1 December 1956 in Thiers, is a journalist, novelist and TF1 news presenter with Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (equivalent still, for our American friends, Dan Rather).
She studied in Paris and graduated from the famous HEC business school and obtained a Master of Economics.
In 1988, she was named senior reporter specialized in economics at Antenne 2 (former France 2) after seven years of print press, and then was hired in 1991 by the director general of TF1 to present the evening news on weekends alternating with the journalist Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.
In 1997, she was named editor-in-chief of information in TF1.
She is regarded as one of the most beautiful over 50 years women in.

She is currently at the Petit Theatre Montparnasse from February 12, 2008 for a reading of "Journal d’Helen," here is the story:
In 1955, François Truffaut, discovered by chance the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché Jules et Jim. It is a real “love at first sight”. Therefore, he wants to make a movie. The success was immediate. Truffaut received many letters, one from a very old lady, Helen Hessel, who under the name Kate was the true hero of Jules et Jim.
"Yes, I was this young girl who jumped into the Seine, who married my beloved Jules (…) Yes, I even shot my Jim. Henri-Pierre Roché turned it into a novel based partly on my diary. "

Via wikipedia.org