BIG TIME OPINION ON THE CORES OF FRANCE INTER. This Thursday, Léa Salamé hosted her last morning after more than a decade of antenna on the public station. An ultimate number obviously synonymous with strong emotion for the one who will embody the “20 hours” of France 2 at the start of the school year. And will leave the “7/9” his friend Nicolas Demorand, now accompanied by Benjamin Duhamel.
At the end of the 8 -hour newspaper of Florence Paracuuellos, the moment “so much feared” by the two animators finally arrived. “You leave Léa, and it makes us immensely sad. It makes me immensely sad, ”said Nicolas Demorand. “It is a page of more than 10 years that I shoot this morning and it is not easy as this morning will have been the most beautiful professional experience of my whole life,” rebounded Léa Salamé, tutored for the first time his comrade on the air.
For several minutes, the starter then put up the thread of her story with this radio. That of an info channel presenter landed on France Inter in 2014 without having neither the “codes” nor the “style”. “I was not exactly your cam. But you let me grow, soften, change, cut less. You taught me and sometimes I even tell myself that you may have adopted me, “she described by thinking of the program team and her listeners that she thanked” from the bottom of my heart “.
“Inter will stay my house, I will come back to it”
Welcoming in France Inter a “blessed and unique place” where “all witnesses” of our “crazy era” parade, the host also praised the merits of a public service being “neither sectarian nor snob” and who knows how to “think against himself”. She warmly thanked her colleagues by quoting their first name, before paying tribute to Mathieu Sarda, programmer of the show tragically disappeared in 2020. “I miss you every day Mathieu, wherever you are”.
Ironizing then on the “interview durations” she never respected, Léa Salamé praised these “powerful women” that she had for boss, from Laurence Bloch to the current Adèle Van Reeth, whose “courage” she rented.
On the verge of tears, it concluded with a “last word” for Nicolas Demorand. “A meeting like that in work is impossible, it does not exist,” said the forties. Before making him a real declaration of love on the antenna. Celebrating the courage he had to write his book “interior night”, she wanted to remind her, her throat knotted: “I am still repeating this microphone this morning, you are not just that, Nico. You are not only bipolar, you are also one of the deepest and learned guys that I have met in all my life. I love you. Thank you for everything. Thank you for everything you brought to my life, for the supplement of soul and humanity ”.
Wanting to finish on a lighter note, Léa Salamé assured that she would wake up at the start of the school year by listening to the interior morning. Satisfied to know that the latter is in “very good hands”, she sent a friendly salvation to her successor, Benjamin Duhamel, “a brilliant journalist in addition to being a good guy”. “Trust me,” she said to her teams. And this time to really conclude: “I will stay my house, I will come back to it”.
“It’s going to be hard”
Before resuming the thread of the program of the day, Nicolas Demorand in turn took the floor. Promising to be in front of the first “20 hours” of Léa Salamé on France 2 at the start of the school year, he egs, on the verge of tears, the qualities of his comrade before interrupting: “My friend I prefer to stop there and just say how much you will miss. It’s going to be hard. ” And to continue with the weather of Marie-Pierre Planchon: “It is less hot this morning, we have not lost everything”.
At 9:20 am, the last morning of Léa Salamé took an unexpected turning point. Exit his last planned interview with the author Cédric Sapin-Defour. Instead, the journalist was interviewed by her colleague and friend the humorist Charline Vanhoenacker.
Ultimate surprise: Arthur Teboul, from the Fire group! Chatterton interpreted a song with the unexpected “guest” of the day. As for Cédric Sapin-Defour, put in confidence, he will be reinforced at the start of the school year for the exit of the adaptation in comics of his bestseller “his smell after the rain” and his new novel “where the stars fall”. “We said: we don’t make tons of it “Ironized Léa Salamé after these celebrations.