A documentary series giving an insight, month by month, into the lives of individual French men and women. November:
The Enterprising Bourgeois Armistice Day in Lille, the industrial heart of north-east France.
Luc Doublet is at the ceremony, torn between feelings of sadness at the memory of those who died and pride in the fact that his flags are draped all over the city. Doublet runs a family firm which makes flags. Luc Doublet is a lively, self-confident and entertaining man. He has a strong sense of family and an equally strong interest in food. On
Armistice Day he makes a chocolate cake for the family lunch, as his 93-year-old grandfather remembers the 1914-18 war and the joy he felt when the armistice was signed.
Narrator MICHAEL DEAN
Series editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF Producer JONATHAN GU. l (R)