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Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut Season 13 Episodes

  • 1956-1970
  • 14 Seasons
  • Drama
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-A historical soap opera set in Quebec's Laurentides (in Canada) in the late 19th century. In the growing settlement of Sainte-Adèle, a love triangle involving Séraphin Poudrier, the powerful but conniving and miserly mayor, Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the woman forced into marrying him as payment for a family debt, and Alexis Labranche, the beau with whom she shares a deep love, quickly becomes a square once you include families and villagers, themselves facing their own daily dramas. One of the longest-running TV series in Canadian history, and one with considerable cultural importance as it pioneered the téléroman format (Quebec's version of "soap opera") and gave French-Canadians a set of idioms that marked generations, including its own version of "Scrooge" and all related expressions, like "You're nothing but a Séraphin" (T'es rien qu'un Séraphin). The series was written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation expanding on his own 1933 novel, "Un Homme et son péché" (lit. trans. "A man and his sin"). It features a vast ensemble cast and interweaves several plots, including several actual historical figures, as it strays beyond the story's principle love yarn to depict life in the early settlements of the region.

Season 13 Episode Guide

Season 13

35 Episodes 0 - 1969

Episode 1

Episode #13.1

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Episode 2

Un cadeau de Séraphin

60 mins

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Episode 3

Le choix

60 mins

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Episode 4

L'invention du siècle

60 mins

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Episode 5

Un grand patriote

60 mins

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Episode 6

La liste noire

60 mins

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Episode 7

La fille perdue

60 mins

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Episode 8

Episode #13.8

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Episode 9

Episode #13.9

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Episode 10

Episode #13.10

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Episode 11

Le miracle

60 mins

"Le Miracle" (The Miracle) deals with the acute illness of Donalda Boudrier (née Laloge) (Andrée Champagne). Her husband Séraphin Boudrier (Jean-Pierre Masson) as parsimonious as ever, insists on her taking only home remedies such as syrup of flax seed for what he believes is only the flu. Unfotunately, the illness progresses quite rapidly and Donalda finally takes to her bed. The "docteur" (doctor) Bouclier (Marcel Cabay) is called to Donalda's bedside in the nick of time. Her condition is indeed more serious than Séraphin had imagined. It is a congestion of the lungs which in time would have resulted in death. The good doctor saves her with a bleeding to release the congestion in the lungs and administers drugs to help in her recovery. The poignant dramatic moment occurs when the doctor tells Séraphin that his wife is out of danger and is on her way to recovery. Copious tears are shed by Séraphin. This is very unusual behavior for him, as he did not even cry at his father's or his mother's funeral as it is related by Alexis Labranche (Guy Provost). Séraphin is so grateful that he gives the doctor $3.00, fifty-cents more than the requested $2.50 fee as requested. This is the Miracle. The miser in a gesture of generosity, forgets his penny-pinching ways and is for once gracious and grateful.

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Episode 12

Tel père, tel fils

60 mins

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Episode 13

Le candidat Castor

60 mins

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Episode 14

La berçante

60 mins

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Episode 15

Solitude

60 mins

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Episode 16

À qui la chance?

60 mins

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Episode 17

La tombe

60 mins

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Episode 18

Le clerc-notaire

60 mins

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Episode 19

Grand-Capot

60 mins

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Episode 20

Une démission tragique

60 mins

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Episode 21

Episode #13.21

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Episode 22

Les deux ivresses

60 mins

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Episode 23

Un oubli

60 mins

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Episode 24

Le mendiant de la nuit

60 mins

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Episode 25

Le fils du déserteur

60 mins

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Episode 26

Un héritage inutile

60 mins

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Episode 27

La maison du pendu

60 mins

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Episode 28

Un conseiller modèle

60 mins

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Episode 29

Episode #13.29

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Episode 30

Jalousie

60 mins

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Episode 31

L'incorrigible Bidou

60 mins

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Episode 32

Episode #13.32

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Episode 33

Episode #13.33

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Episode 34

Episode #13.34

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Episode 35

Episode #13.35

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