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During an appearance on Christiane Charette’s radio show in 2008, Nadeau announced he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. At the time, Nadeau said he felt that “something was not quite right” when he returned from filming a report in the West Bank. After receiving a diagnosis for the degenerative disease, the veteran reporter opted to distance himself from his career.

Born in Montreal in 1936, Nadeau began his career at a radio station in Rimouski, before heading to Paris to work for the Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF).

Upon returning to Quebec in the late-1950s, Radio-Canada hired Nadeau to host the television program Camera. In 1965, Nadeau was appointed as the broadcaster’s official Paris correspondent.