Richard Taxy

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Paris, the Sentier district. Christmas is approaching and Vahé Krikorian's life is falling apart. The shop he runs with his father is about to close. Too many debts and unpaid bills. Lu Ann, the woman he loves, is leaving him, and he knows that the shell games he plays with Sahak and his brother Toros won't get him very far.

Urbain, a man "like everyone else" likes only one music; that of the records he listens religiously. Unfortunately, troublesome neighbors will disrupt the man who will have to act to get rid of it in a definitive way.