Basic Info

First Air: June 26, 2007

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Bohemian Rhapsody

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2007-07-10

Runtime: 58 min

Sandrine Voillet tells how the city embraced technology (the Lumiere Bros, Louis Renault and the Metro), counter-culture (Picasso, Josephine Baker and Serge Gainsbourg) and immigration to preserve its reputation as lighthouse city to the world. But it was not plain sailing: resistance to modernisation, the Occupation and rioting in the Banlieue tell a darker story and reveal problems unresolved to this day. Along the way, Sandrine meets Picasso's grandson and Jane Birkin.