Sylvain Augier, the former host of the television shows “Faut pas rêve” and “La Carte aux Trésors”, died on Saturday March 16 at the age of 68, his daughter announced on Tuesday March 19 to Agence France -Press. Its image remains associated with travel and adventure.
The general public first knew him thanks to “Faut pas rêve”, which he presented from 1990 to 1999 and which won two 7 d'or, the television awards, in 1997. Scheduled on Friday in second part of the evening on France 3, this program presented reports on exotic destinations, in France and around the world. It was created by Georges Pernoud, the father of “Thalassa”, broadcast just before.
From 1996 to 2005, he also presented the adventure game “The Treasure Map”. The candidates went in search of hidden objects in a given department, using a helicopter – one of Sylvain Augier’s passions – and solved puzzles.
The host was crazy about risky sports. In 1988, at the age of 33, he had a serious paragliding accident in the Hautes-Pyrénées, which almost cost him an amputation of his foot.
“He was our ever-joking Tintin reporter,” greeted host and sportswoman Nathalie Simon on Tuesday on the social network
Late in life, he spoke candidly about his fight against bipolarity, this “formidable enemy” in a moving book published in October 2023, I've come back from afar, which opened with a suicide attempt he made at 55 years.
