Georges Péclet – MRQE

Le Héros de la Marne

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor’s daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country’s enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.

La Grande illusion

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Princesse Tam Tam

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

Le Coq du régiment

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed “the Rooster of the Regiment”, a married man, who just can’t help running after any woman passing around, and one of his friend, who always has “good ideas” to give him a hand to come out of “ubuesque” situations.

Cinq gentlemen maudits, Les

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears – and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted…