He orders his treasurer, Garin de Brazey, to marry Catherine so she can be received at court despite her low birth.īecause Catherine believes Arnaud is to marry Isabelle de Sévérac, she agrees to be the mistress of the powerful Duke who showers her with titles and riches. Her beauty attracts the attention of Duke Philip the Good who desires her. He wishes to avenge his brother's death by killing Catherine, but tells her he will not do so because she is a woman. After Catherine and Arnaud fall in love, Arnaud discovers that one of Catherine's family members killed his older brother. At this point, she meets a wounded knight, the noble Arnaud de Montsalvy who is one of Joan of Arc's captains and the late Michel de Montsalvy's younger brother. At the age of twenty-one, she is a beautiful woman. They are accompanied by Sara the Black, a young gypsy who hid the women in a slum area of Paris.Ĭatherine's attempt to save Michel de Montsalvy has changed her life. Catherine and her mother flee to Dijon to the home of her maternal uncle, Mathieu Gautherin. Catherine hides Michel in the family's cellar, but he and her father are murdered by a paternal cousin. He is to be executed because he spat at Duke John and called him a traitor.

During the Parisian riots of 1413, Catherine Legoix, the 13-year-old daughter of a goldsmith living on the Pont-au-Change, tries to save a young Armagnac knight, 16-year old Michel de Montsalvy. John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, is locked in a struggle against the Armagnacs who support the future King Charles VII. The story takes place in the time of the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War, a conflict which occurred during a lull in the Hundred Years' War. Sarraut had previously directed another of Benzoni's best-selling novel series Marianne with Corinne Touzet who starred in the leading role. The screenplay was written by Benzoni with Jean Chatenet, and directed by Marion Sarraut. The adaptation remained similar to the original text of Juliette Benzoni's story about Catherine and her adventures in France during the 15th century. Catherine, il suffit d'un amour by Juliette BenzoniĬatherine, il suffit d'un amour was a French television series produced by Antenne 2 in 1986 and based on the Catherine novels written by best-selling French author Juliette Benzoni.

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