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A French Village returns in autumn on the screens of channel France 3 for the second part of the sixth season. Since 2009, this television series, which describes the lives of the inhabitants of "Villeneuve" - ??a fictional village - during the Second World War, has an average of four million viewers. Successful series, there were others, of course. The latter is somewhat different, however, since it takes as its historical framework the German Occupation during the Second World War, this "past which does not pass" according to the expression of Éric Conan and Henry Rousso, because of the State collaboration, Vichy, and its active role in the deportation of approximately 75,000 Jews from its territory.

Any director can obviously delimit his subject and it would have been easy to center this series on the most glorious aspects of this difficult story. If the Resistance and the Collaboration are not absent - the deportation of the Jews dominates even the fourth season - the emphasis is rather on the daily accommodation with the German occupant. How to explain the success of this series? Could it be because, 70 years after the end of the Second World War, the French are still obsessed with "Vichy"? Without wishing to minimize their interest in this page of their history, we would like to suggest here that the success of this series is also, and perhaps even above all, artistic.

Let us note first that the principal author and writing director of this series, Frédéric Krivine, is not a novice and that he reuses here recipes tried out in another series of which he was the author, PJ, diffused on France 2 between 1997 and 2009. In France he was one of the first - if not the first - to try the collective writing of a television series: "More than a choice, it was a necessity, since The main characteristic of PJ is to be anchored in social reality and that it is a difficult world to feed for a single person, "he explained in 1998.......
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