"Cult series" 2

"Pope Clement! ... Sir William! ... King Philip! ... Within a year, I quote you look at the judgment seat of Christ to receive your just punishment! Damn! Damn! All cursed until the thirteenth generation of your races. " It is through the smoke of the bonfire of condammés to death that the Grand Master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay, Philip the Fair launches the terrible curse whose echoes resound throughout the seven episodes of the cult series that traces the sequencing of political and military disasters leading to the Hundred Years War.
Princesses adulterers, poisoned heir deposed king: Maurice Druon happily introduces us into the intimacy of the crowned heads of the XIV century back to life before our eyes. In the wake of Alexandre Dumas, more realistic but just as much panache, he led briskly tumulteuse this saga dominated by the figures of Robert d'Artois and his aunt Mahaut, remarkably played by Jean Piat and Hélène Duc in 'faithful adaptation of Claude Barma conducted in 1963 for the ORTF and DVD release in 2005. A model of the genre!