The novelist Frédérique Hébrard died at the age of 96. The opportunity to return to one of his most famous works, the summer saga “Le Château des oliviers”, broadcast on France 2 in the 90s.
Summer sagas are unmissable events on the small screen. Burnt Hearts, Dolmen, Terre Indigo… We can no longer count these programs, although often full of clichés, but which fascinate millions of viewers. Among these series, there is one which met with enormous success in 1993: Le Château des oliviers.
Focus on this saga of the Château des oliviers as its author Frédérique Hébrard, to whom we also owe La Demoiselle d’Avignon, died on Thursday September 7 at the age of 96.
Broadcast on France 2 during the summer of 1993, the mini-series Le Château des oliviers tells the story of Estelle Laborie, who goes to Châteauneuf-du-Pape to spend the holidays in the family home. As she goes there to settle down permanently, old stories, distant resentments and violent rivalries come to the surface…
Will Estelle manage to save the Château des Oliviers when a mysterious entrepreneur from the region wants to raze the property to turn it into an amusement park?
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Made up of eight episodes revealed on France 2 between June and August 1993, the saga broke audience records with an average of more than 8 million spectators per episode. Figures that allowed him to get ahead of The High Tides, the rival series of TF1.
The saga Le Château des oliviers, carried in particular by Brigitte Fossey and Jacques Perrin, obtained the 7 d’or in 1993 for Best Series of the Year and Best Actress.