Friday, September 8, 2023

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW 17TH CENTURY SET HISTORICAL FRENCH SERIES MAIDENS OF FIRE (FILLES DU FEU) INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS

 MAIDENS OF FIRE SERIES  
SET IN 17TH CENTURY FRANCE
The series is currently airing on France 2
While we are waiting to hear casting updates or anything new on the announced second season of Marie Antoinette, another historical series is coming from France: MAIDENS OF FIRE (Filles du feu), a new six episode historical series is currently airing on their France 2 channel with new episodes every Monday night. Anabel Lopez, Lizzie Brochere, Zoe Adjani and Bruno Debrandt lead the cast of the new period set show.
 THE STORY IS SET IN 1609
in the Basque Country. Coming from a long line of healers who also kill babies by performing abortions, three sisters see their lives endangered and jeopardized by the arrival of judge and passionate demonologist Pierre De Lancre in the region. He has been commissioned by king Henry IV himself. Hostile and terrified of women's freedom and knowledge, he will lead what will be one of the deadliest witch hunts in France. Plunged into a nightmare, the three sisters find themselves having to fight, each in their own way, to try to survive... Icy cold and deeply ruthless, Pierre de Lancre multiplies atrocities over the episodes to impose his vision of the world, torturing then executing numerous women in the process.

 DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
Born in 1553 in Bordeaux, Pierre de Lancre was a French judge and magistrate who was commissioned in 1609 by King Henry IV to purge the country of all sorcerers and witches under the influence of demons. For four months he worked actively to instruct and judge. It was in the small province of Labourd in the Basque Country that Pierre de Lancre had between 70 and 200 women arrested and then executed for witchcraft. You can also check out the trailer below:

4 comments:

  1. I'm always on the side of healers and wise women. Want to watch this. Talking about Marie Antoinette, I gave up on it, there were so many lies, some that almost made no sense even for people that knows not history, that i grew bored

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    1. Marie gets better, or more dynamic towards the end, but it is still a bleh meh series. I am finishing Domina tonight and will be sad to let it go. I also finished Westworld and Strange New Worlds this week, so I will start three new shows next week.

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  2. What a disgusting time to be alive for women. This is one I'd like to watch also, but it probably won't be on any of our streamers.

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    1. It was terrible for everyone, pretty much nobody was safe and there was no justice, not that we have much of that now either.

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