Original release 2 octobre 2013
Previous episode S2013E06 - Venise, la cité des mystères
Number S2013E07
Country France
Genre Documentary
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Bordeaux, histoires de châteaux

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L'animateur, qui se présente comme un historien commentateur, part à la découverte de Bordeaux et de sa région.
A travers les petites histoires et les personnages marquants, il évoque la construction du mythe des grands châteaux du Médoc.
Ainsi, le mariage d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine, en 1152, avec Henri Plantagenêt, futur roi d'Angleterre, marque le début du rayonnement international des vins de Bordeaux, qui commencent à être exportés vers la Grande-Bretagne.
Nombreux furent ensuite les épisodes historiques et romanesques liés aux domaines viticoles prestigieux de la région, à l'image de la bataille de Castillon, en 1453, qui, en mettant fin à la guerre de Cent Ans, rouvrit les ventes de vins de Bordeaux à l'étranger.

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Secrets d'histoire Season 20 Finale: Stéphane Bern's Messalina Episode Ends a Season About Reputations on Trial

Twenty seasons in, "Secrets d'histoire" can still surprise its audience. The Season 20 finale aired on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 9:10 p.m. on France 3, and Stéphane Bern closed the season with one of the most notorious women of antiquity: Messalina, the third wife of Emperor Claudius. If you watched it, you already know it was more than a parade of Roman scandal. It was a careful re-examination of a woman whose name has been shorthand for depravity for almost two thousand years. If you haven't caught up yet, this debrief shows why the episode, and the whole season, deserves a place in your watchlist.

A finale that puts history's verdict on trial

The question at the centre of the finale was simple: does Messalina deserve the brutal nickname history gave her? Roman writers handed down a woman driven by insatiable desire and a hunger for power. Bern's team took that portrait apart piece by piece. They asked who wrote the story, why they wrote it, and what they gained from it. This is the series at its best. It doesn't simply retell a legend. It looks into how the legend was made. Messalina's world gave the episode plenty of drama: Caligula, Nero, Agrippina and the freedman Narcissus all appear, each with their own agenda in the deadly politics of the Julio-Claudian court. Without spoiling anything for latecomers, the finale's real emotional pull comes from the gap between the caricature and the young woman caught up in a machine much bigger than she was.

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