
1 Season
6 Episode
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
- Year: 1961
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ICI Radio-Canada Télé
- Keyword: quebec, greed, rural area, 19th century, dramatic
- Director: Louis-Yves Dubois, Claude-Henri Grignon
- Cast: Jean-Pierre Masson, Andrée Champagne, Hector Charland, Gabriel Gascon, Andrée Basilières, Roland Chenail