Monsignor Renard

Episode 2

July 1940

The folk of St.Josse prepare to celebrate Bastille Day, but liberty, equality and fraternity are in short supply when Gestapo Officer Rudi Brandt descends on the town and unleashes his jackbooted minions. A battle of wills soon develops with Renard, who resists the temptation to collaborate with the invaders. He is arrested for an act of resistance, and his former lover Madeleine is forced to re-examine her attitude towards the Germans.

Episode 3

September 1940

As the German prosecution of the Jews begins, Renard uses the annual procession of St.Josse to register the disgust at events taking place.

Episode 4

November 1940

Renard leads the townsfolk in an open snub to the Germans, while Etienne incurs the nazis' anger with a foolhardy and premature show of resistance.