Biography
Patrick Poivre was born in Reims, France. He obtained his Baccalauréat at 15, the year he became a father. He attended the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where he studied Law and Oriental Languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. Poivre claims to be descended directly from Jacques Poivre, brother of Pierre Poivre, an 18th century nobleman in the time of Louis XV, "d'Arvor" being Jacques Poivre's pseudonym. Poivre, his siblings and his three surviving children legally changed their surname to "Poivre d'Arvor" in 1994.
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