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Plus belle la vie (More beautiful life) is a French television soap opera based on an idea by Hubert Besson and characters created by Georges Desmouceaux, Bénédicte Achard, Magaly Richard-Serrano and Olivier Szulzynger. On air since 30 August 2004, it is currently shown on France 3 on Monday to Friday evenings at 8:15 p.m. The show began with 17 main actors and gained more later.[1]

Plus belle la vie
Genre	Soap opera
Theme music composer	Maidi Roth
Country of origin	France
Original language	French
No. of seasons	18
No. of episodes	4520 + 27 special (as of 15th April 2022)
Production
Executive producers	Hubert Besson, Telfrance
Production locations	Marseille, France
Running time	24 minutes
Release
Original network	France 3
Picture format	16/9
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	30 August 2004 (2004-08-30) – present

On 11 July 2008, France 3 broadcast its 1000th episode, a milestone in French television. The series set a second record on 8 June 2012, airing its 2000th episode.[1] On 22 April 2016, it broadcast its 3000th episode, and on 21 February 2020, its 4000th.

Plot

The series follows the daily lives of the inhabitants of "Le Mistral", a fictional neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy and less than wealthy families co-exist. It focuses on their evolving love lives and friendships evolve and on the criminal intrigues in which certain residents of the neighbourhood are involved.

Main cast

Actor	Character	Seasons
Colette Renard	Rachel Lévy	seasons 1–5
Cécilia Hornus	Blanche Marci	seasons 1–present
Sylvie Flepp	Mirta Torres	seasons 1–present
Hélène Médigue	Charlotte Le Bihac	seasons 1–5
Serge Dupire	Vincent Chaumette	seasons 1–present
Michel Cordes	Roland Marci	seasons 1–present
Thierry Ragueneau	François Marci	seasons 1–2 et 8
Pierre Martot	Léo Castelli	seasons 1–9 & 12–present
Rebecca Hampton	Céline Frémont	seasons 1–present
Geoffrey Sauveaux	Lucas Marci	seasons 1–2
Dounia Coesens	Johanna Marci	seasons 1–10
Ambroise Michel	Rudy Torres	seasons 1–10
Aurélie Vaneck	Ninon Chaumette	seasons 1–10
Sofiane Belmouden	Malik Nassri	seasons 1–4
Ibtissem Guerda	Aicha Djellal	season 1
Lætitia Milot	Mélanie Rinato	seasons 1–present
Richard Guedj	Charles-Henri Picmal	seasons 1– 2 & 7
Alexandre Pottier	Antoine Frémont	season 1
Juliette Chêne	Juliette Frémont	seasons 1–4 & 8
Virgile Bayle	Guillaume Leserman	seasons 1–13
Anne Décis	Luna Torres	seasons 1–present
Alexandre Fabre	Charles Frémont	seasons 1–present
Laurent Kerusoré	Thomas Marci	seasons 1–present
Thibaud Vaneck	Nathan Leserman	seasons 1–8 & 10–present

Recurring Cast

Actor	Character	Seasons
Fabienne Carat	Samia Nassri	seasons 1–present
Jean-François Malet	Jean-François Leroux	seasons 2–12
Valérie Baurens	Agathe Robin	season 2–6 & 8
Cécile Auclert	Véra Madigan	seasons 2–5
Amalric Gérard	Jean-Baptiste Gauthier	seasons 2–4
Élodie Varlet	Estelle Cantorel	seasons 3–present
Jean-Charles Chagachbanian	Franck Ruiz	seasons 3–6 and 11–present
Franck Borde	Florian Estève	seasons 3–7
Ludovic Baude	Benoît Cassagne	seasons 4–present
Stéphane Henon	Jean-Paul Boher	seasons 4–present
Pascale Roberts	Wanda Legendre	seasons 4–present
Coline d'Inca	Sybille Cassagne	seasons 4–9
Audric Chapus	Raphaël Cassagne	seasons 4–8
David Baiot	Djawad Sangha	seasons 5–present
Marwan Berreni	Abdel Fedala	seasons 5–present
Léa François	Barbara Évenot	seasons 5–present
Rachid Hafassa	Karim Fedala	seasons 5–present
Françoise Bertin	Josiane Laval	season 5
Catherine Benguigui	Violette Garcin	season 6
Anne Canovas	Anémone Vitreuil	seasons 6–7 et 9–present
Caroline Bourg	Elsa Bailly	seasons 7–present
Joakim Latzko	Gabriel Riva	seasons 7–present
Avy Marciano	Sacha Malkavian	seasons 7–present
Geoffrey Piet	Jonas Malkavian	seasons 7–12
Stéphane Bierry	Stéphane Prieur	seasons 8–present
Gladys Cohen	Seta Malkavian	seasons 8–present
Sara Mortensen	Coralie Blain	seasons 8–present
Stéphanie Pareja	Jeanne Carmin	seasons 8–present
Marie Réache	Babeth Nebout	seasons 8–present
Jérôme Bertin	Patrick Nebout	seasons 9–present
Charles Schneider	Principal Rochat	seasons 9–present
Céline Vitcoq	Wendy Lesage	seasons 9–13
Marie-Christine Adam	Marie-Christine Walter	seasons 16–present
Lola Marois-Bigard	Ariane Hersant	seasons 17–present

Impact

The series struggled to find its footing in the first season, but after striving to create more dynamic story lines, by the second season Plus belle la vie enjoyed regular audiences of five million viewers. On Valentine's Day 2006, a plot involving Nicolas Barrel's death drew an audience of 6,329,600.[2] On 17 November 2008 Plus belle la vie received its highest ratings ever with over 6.8 million viewers and a 24.9% audience share.[3]

For several years, the series regularly averaged audiences in excess of 5 million viewers and audience shares above 20% each weekday evening.[4] In recent seasons, its viewing numbers have gradually declined.

This ratings slump worsened at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and, on 5 May 2022, France Télévisions announced the end of the series which will take place on 18 November 2022, following "a substantial shift in viewing habits" after 18 years on air.[5]

See also

• List of French television series

References

External links

• Plus belle la vie at IMDb

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