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The crew spent four weeks filming there last autumn (the interiors were shot in the UK at the now defunct boarding school Carmel College in Oxfordshire), and it's likely Aix will soon see tourists flocking in to enjoy its beauty. Only a few close friends know about the books and they were excited when we were filming in Aix.' 'They know me as an academic because I taught Creative Writing classes at the New York University campus in Paris.

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'I'm happy with my anonymity here,' says Mary Lou, who turned down a cameo role in the series – although her daughter pops up as an extra in one episode. She doesn't have to worry about locals getting angry about being portrayed in the books though as, despite the success of the series in the English-speaking world, no French publishing house has taken an interest in translating and publishing them. Pictured: Roger Allam as Antoine Verlaqueįriends have made their way into her books, but she says Antoine, with his love of food, is based more on her than anyone else.

The crew spent four weeks filming the series in Aix, while interior shots were captured at the now defunct boarding school Carmel College in Oxfordshire. 'Just as the Morse books are based around the university, I wanted to do something similar as that's the world I was comfortable in.' The city has a form of nobility which is normally very closed, but we were welcomed. I think people were intrigued by this family from North America.

'Later, friends who moved here from Paris said they didn't get the welcome I did. 'When we moved to Aix, I put my daughter in the local school and people were very welcoming to me, even though I barely spoke any French at that point,' she recalls. Mary Lou, who recently finished the tenth book in the series, says she wrote about a world she'd been invited into. There is this constant nod to it, but at the end of the day we are English actors.' 'We did talk a lot about the best way to create that French essence and you'll see it in the way everyone gives each other two kisses when they meet. And the setting is French – Antoine drives a beautiful old Citroën DS and they chew the fat over lots of bottles of wine. 'There's a bluntness to them that's more French. Patricia Hodge who plays Marine's mother Florence (pictured) is among the British actors playing French characters 'Although our characters are speaking English, there's something quite un-English about them,' says Nancy, best known as Lady Felicia in Father Brown. How the English actors, including Patricia Hodge as Marine's mother Florence, should play their French characters was much debated.Īdmittedly, they speak English, but they've captured the French way of life and certain words are said with flawless French accents – such as 'santé' instead of 'cheers' when they clink glasses.

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Can the men in the women's lives help crack the case? then another body turns up.Īnd in the third, a young woman's death in the nearby village of Éguilles is connected to the discovery of an older woman's body in a vineyard. The second takes place in a crumbling château where warring relatives are fighting over an inheritance after the death of an aristocrat. In the first episode, Antoine and Marine put plans for a weekend break on hold when a professor is murdered in his study, and everyone from his secretary to a local paedophile falls under suspicion.īut the more our sleuths delve, the more crimes they uncover. The stories are mainly set among the intellectual elite of the city, although the suspects are not always upper class. We're dealing with crime and greed and murder and all of that, so there's this underbelly to the very obvious beauty of the place.' But it's a city so it has a variety of things going on. 'You certainly get chocolate-box views as Aix is a glorious place. They make each other laugh, they make life enjoyable. They have this balance with each other, they really enjoy each other's company. 'They've found this way of being together after both having had tragic things happen to them.