Fabienne Guyon

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.

In a small apartment, a couple wakes up on the morning of their wedding. She is happy and cheerful, he is nervous and tired. The couple prepares under the attentive and ironic gaze of an omnipresent and talkative choir.

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.