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Lon Zitrone was a Russianborn French journalist and television presenter.

Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of RadiodiffusionTlvision Franaise . In 1959, he joined the television activity of RTF. From 1961, he became news presenter, function he occupied for nearlyyears, first until 1975, on the first French television channel , then also on Antenne 2, the other public service channel. JeanPierre Elkabbach called him back in 1979. He then took charge of the news program during the weekend . He would come back for those news programs also during the Easter and Pentecost weekends.

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