I expected something better from this TV series, French melodrama show taking place in the rural France of the 1800's. I expected something like JACQUOU LE CROQUANT, JEAN CHALOSSE, L'ENNEMI DE LA MORT; I mean gloomy dramas, showing how peasants, rural population, lived in those days. This one is just entertaining, but too light hearted for my taste, without being a comedy though, I admit. It is action - nearly - packed, and rather predictable. Yes, that's it, it lacks the gloominess which the other series of this kind provided. That's a matter of taste. This series was produced during the early sixties, before the sseries which I evoked above.

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