A graduate of the Centre de Formation des Journalistes de Paris, Alain Dauvergne started out as a journalist at Agence France Presse and then at Combat.
He then worked for many years as deputy editor-in-chief of RTL. A specialist in European issues, he was then deputy editor-in-chief of Le Point magazine.
Alain Dauvergne was born in 1937 in Colmar.