Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.
Air Date: 1970-06-07
'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. An introduction to the poetic and philosophical universe of Saint-Ex...
Air Date: 1971-02-03
'Little Good-For-Nothing' or 'Little What's-His-Name' by Alphonse Daudet.
Air Date: 1971-04-07
'The Knot of Vipers' by François Mauriac. A reading of Mauriac's novel that combines personal accounts with adapted s...
Air Date: 1971-11-17
'The Charterhouse of Parma' by Stendhal.
Air Date: 1971-12-22
'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust.
Air Date: 1971-12-22
A realistic and poetic evocation of Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Halfway between an audiovisual adaptati...
Air Date: 1972-01-24
'Martin Eden' by Jack London. Claude Santelli and Jean-Louis Muller interview Professor Las Vergnas, a specialist in ...
Air Date: 1972-01-26
The portrait of Socrates.
Air Date: 1972-02-23
The biblical Book of Exodus.
Air Date: 1972-03-22
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Air Date: 1972-04-15
'The Mysterious Island' by Jules Verne.
Air Date: 1972-04-26
'My Childhood' by Maxim Gorky.
Air Date: 1972-05-24
'Gargantua' by François Rabelais.
Air Date: 1972-07-26
'Jude the obscure' by Thomas Hardy.
Air Date: 1972-12-20
'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe.
Air Date: 1973-07-30
'History of the Revolution' by Jules Michelet.
Air Date: 1973-12-28
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. This program explores Wonderland from every angle: iconic scenes...