These are numbers, big ones, and letters which, together, form a formal condemnation. France Télévisions will have to pay. According to our information, the Paris industrial tribunal decided, on November 27, that the public audiovisual group will have to pay a total of nearly 450,000 euros to the two former historic figures of the show “Des Numéros et des Lettres”, Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat. In detail, the “Mr. Mathematics” will have to receive around 230,000 euros and the French language specialist almost 220,000 euros.
In question, the conditions of their departure from France Télévisions in the summer of 2022. Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat had been thanked after respectively 47 and 36 years of participation in the cult game broadcast first on Deux then on Trois. A departure “constrained and forced », They denounced at the time, rejecting France Télévisions’ version of a change in formula – the game would then be transferred to the weekend – which they would have refused. “Numbers and Letters” finally disappeared from television in 2024 after half a century of broadcast.
