TV Show Details
Air Date:March 2nd, 1963
Last Air Date:March 23rd, 1963
Network:ORTF Télévision
Status:Ended
Original Language:French
Production Companies:RAI, Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma, ORTF
Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge (1963)
TV ShowORTF Télévision
Scripted
Plot
This historic mini-series is set just after the execution of Louis XVI and follows the actions of a group of loyal royalists, led by the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge. His goal is to free Queen Marie-Antoinette and the young King Louis XVII, but he runs into the brutal jailer Simon who makes sure to thwart any attempt to escape.
A secondary plot line deals with the feelings of Lindet, the lieutenant of the national guard, towards Geneviève, the young protege of the royalist Morand, which for the sans-culottes is a crime in itself.
