Thursday, October 20, 2022

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DIANE DE POITIERS HISTORICAL SERIES ON FRENCH KING'S FAVOURITE WITH HUGO BECKER, ISABELLE ADJANI, GERARD DEPARDIEU, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN

  DIANE DE POITIERS SERIES 
THE KING'S FAVOURITE
Straight from the French court arrives new French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS which follows the life of the infamous French courtesan
The series is streaming on Salto
who held the French king in her wicked clutches for decades. Also known as THE KING'S FAVOURITE this costume drama is already streaming on French streamer Salto and will hit their France 2 channel from November 7th! The series has our dearest Hugo Becker as King Henry II, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France Catherine de Medici looking not very happy. Both Catherine and Diane look totally different than the ones depicted in The Serpent Queen series which is currently successfully airing over at Starz. The cast also has Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Joey Starr as Comte de Kervannes, Olivier Gourmet as Charles Quint, Guillaume Galienne as Ambroise Paré, Samuel Labarthe as François 1st, and Jeanne Balibar as Marguerite de Navarre! The project is also being offered to international buyers as two 100minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one. You can also check out a clip showing the king fondling Diane while they are preparing poor Catherine for their first wedding night.
 
  IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES
about the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty fueled rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici definitively compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself predict Diane's future? Can a simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches? Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.
 

10 comments:

  1. I watched Diane de Poitiers' s trailer. Especially its story is really interesting. It sound good and (as usual) its costumes look great (good quality).

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  2. I'm glad actors are prettier than in TSQ (Not difficult to achieve) that we have real characters in this tragedy such as Nostradamus and Ambroise Paré, but who is this protestant courtesan that arouses the Inquisition's supicions? Diane? Are we to contiue with fake historical news?

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    1. Speaking of TSQ, can you tell me why are Catherine and Henri old after episode four while her maids and Diane are still the same, twenty years after??? I mean Catherine looked like she could be the daughter of that slutty lady in waiting of hers, and now she looks like she could be her mother. Da eff were they thinking??? Yes, Diane was accused, falsely or not, of being a protestant, but protestants and catholics were warring constantly back then, so it might just be a political intrigue. Most of Catherines rule was based on staying neutral between the two or carefully balancing.

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    2. Please don’t ask anything about that chaos that was The Serpent, Queen. Nothing made sense in it. Why would Catherine surround herself with such low-class sluts? The answer is, it all comes from Justin Haythe fertile but libelous mind.
      I was under the impression that Diane was a convinced Catholic, very hostile to the New Religion, and that in her testament she set up a clause that if her daughters and descendants even flirted with Protestantism, they would be disinherited (Ivan Cloulas: Henri II)
      France had no inquisition after the Middle Ages. And it would have been absurd to go after Diane, when half of the court was Huguenot or sympathized with them. Last, but not the least, Diane de Poitiers was not a courtesan, she was a noble lady, respected member of the Valois Court and formal Maitresse Royale.

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    3. We shall see when and if we manage to see this show.

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  3. I very much like the costumes in this one. I do hope they go with the 4 50 minute episodes. It's just too hard for me to sit through long shows anymore.

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    1. That is how they are streaming it on Salto, in four episodes.

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  4. This doesn't look so bad, but I'm curious how Nostradamus plays a part. Didn't he predict way into the future? Was he considered gifted even back then? I'm off to research him a little more.

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    1. He was, why do you think she kept him at her court?

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