Episode list

Black models, white viewpoint: As the American Black Lives Matter movement echoes around the world, how is the black population represented in popular French culture? Between sad caricatures and racism, the way black people are portrayed is packed with myths, stereotypes and allegories. Yet certain artists are managing to change attitudes for the better.

De Gaulle, the artist: To coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of his death, a unique documentary about General de Gaulle, his views on culture and his tumultuous relationship with the artists of the time. With Hugues Aufray, Antoine, Raphaëlle Bacqué, Catherine Nay, Michel Winock, Jean-Luc Barré, Fabrice Luchini.

Desires of women: For so long it has been men that looked at women, represented, filmed, painted and fantasised about them - When was it that women took power? When did they finally reappropriate their own image? Who were the first female artists to represent their body, their desires, their fantasies? Léa Salamé meets artists who answer this very contemporary question: does a woman see things differently to a man?

Napoleon, influencer: Napoleon left behind an indelible mark through his military and political conquests, of course, but also thanks to the arts. Painters, sculptors, architects: an army of artists carefully constructed an embroidered narrative of his conquests and his glory.

Mitterrand, a cultural president: For the fortieth anniversary of François Mitterrand's rise to power in May 1981, we take an opportunity to look back at his relationship with artists and rediscover the major creations that bear his stamp. Friends, close colleagues and his daughter, Mazarine Pingeot, paint a unique portrait of François Mitterrand.

French café culture: In every corner of France, cafés and bars form the beating heart of towns and villages. Part of French heritage, throughout French history they've been represented, exalted and magnified by French artists, who have sometimes, literally, brought them to life. Writers, singers, artists and intellectuals celebrate this French cultural exception.

As brilliant as he was detestable, obsessed with beauty, inventor of modern poetry, Charles Baudelaire abhorred his time. The poet was condemned for outrage against morality, and his life's work, "Les Fleurs du mal", was censored. Today, if many artists appropriate the words of Baudelaire, the genius remains shrouded in a dark light. For the 200th anniversary of his birth, France, which likes to celebrate its great writers, has largely forgotten the most poisonous of them. "Le doc Stupéfiant" looks at this paradox, that of a modern reactionary, an odious sublime, a misunderstood genius.