Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut

Overview

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.

Cast

Jean-Pierre Masson

Séraphin Poudrier

Andrée Champagne

Donalda Laloge

Hector Charland

Evangeliste Poudrier

Gabriel Gascon

Alexis Labranche

Andrée Basilières

Angelique Pothier

Roland Chenail

Dr. Cyprien Marignon

Paul Desmarteaux

le Cure Labelle

Paul Dupuis

Arthur Buies

Pierre Boucher

Honore Mercier