Lucien Nat

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Nella Francia degli anni ’20 del Novecento, il giovane aristocratico Georges de Sarre e l’ancor più giovane Alexandre sono studenti in un istituto retto dai gesuiti dove la disciplina è legge. Tra i due ragazzi nasce un'amicizia speciale, fatta di intesa, complicità, sentimenti puri e qualche casto bacio. Ma l’amicizia - complici le soffiate di un terzo ragazzo, provocate dalla gelosia - attira le attenzioni dei religiosi.

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

An ex-convict who wants to make an honest life for himself is pursued by the implacable hatred of a policeman.

Quattro episodi di amori celebri: nel primo il duca di Lauzun tenta si corteggiare una bella cortigiana in barba al Re Sole; nel secondo la celebrità dell'amore è quella tra Alberto di Sassonia e Agnese Bernauer; il terzo riguarda un tradimento e la sua vendetta condotta dalla prostituta Jenny de la Cour; l'utlimo si sofferma con leggerezza sugli amori dei commedianti.

The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.