Patricia Mazuy

What causes a man who has everything to jeopardize his comfort, career and relationship? A passion, as burning as it is fresh, for five acres of land in the Limoges region. But land has to be earned, especially when one comes from the city. And so Franck embarks on a quest for his own Holy Grail. He needs a tractor.

It follows police officer Guillaume, who inherits his family's bowling business following his father's death. He decides to give it to his troubled half-brother, Armand, but Guillaume is later distracted from his work in investigating a series of murders by his sibling's unusual management of the business along with a team of hunters and an environmental activist (tmbd)

A man who killed his entire family and fled from a small village in Southern France is seemingly back in the area and capturing him becomes the obsession of a young female cop.

Gracieuse, a farmer’s daughter, is disgusted at the way the horses she trained to the top levels of jumping are taken away from her. She meets the legendary trainer Franz Mann, who now manages a rich landowner’s estate, and with his help starts over in the world of dressage. (mubi.com)

Madame de Maintenon, a courtesan to the royal court and wife to King Louis XIV, opens a special school for girls, seeking to educate young ladies of distinguished parentage but limited financial means. (Answers.com)

Gerard and his wife Annie have made a nice life for themselves on their farm. That life is disturbed by the arrival of Gerard's older brother Roland – a brother Annie never knew existed. It gradually becomes clear that both brothers had once negligently set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. Roland took all the blame for causing the death, and spent ten years in prison for it.