It all begins in the early 60s, in a deprived neighbourhood just outside Paris inhabited by Algerian immigrants. Malika is 5, and her mum has just bought her a brand-new pair of sandals. They’re so white that the little girl can’t keep her eyes off them, and doesn’t see the reversing truck.

This is the story of Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1903 with two dollars and 50 cents to his name.

The love story between the French actress Arletty and the German officer Hans Jürgen Soehring during the occupation of France by Germany.

The true story of Bob Denard, a French mercenary hired in 1965 by the Republic of Congo.

Albert Camus, a life - Camus seen through women's eyes. From The Rebel to The First Man and The Fall, the last ten years of Albert Camus's turbulent life.

The extraordinary life of Marguerite Steinheil, also known as ''the Red Widow

The series recounts Fouquet’s inexorable rise, his financial acumen, his success with women, the building of his château, Vaux-le-Vicomte, which prefigured Versailles, and his struggle with Colbert, who brought about his downfall and left him to rot in in a gloomy, remote fortress.