His affair with the likewise married Marie Germain (Nade Dieu, The Butterfly) notwithstanding, his sawmill business is floundering, and the police have arrived at the mill to investigate a Communist cell that appears to be operating from the premises. Raymond has bigger problems at the moment. Raymond (Thierry Godard, Spiral) believes the Germans are 100 km away, so what’s the harm, as long as Marceau brings his gas mask. Meanwhile, the spoiled Jeannine Schwartz (Emmanuelle Bach, NYPD Blue) asks husband Raymond (Thierry Godard, Spiral) to get three chickens for her birthday dinner, and wonders aloud if it’s safe for son Marceau to go on the class field trip, since the German Army is getting closer.
With one of his patients about to give birth, he tells his concerned wife, Hortense (Audrey Fleurot, Spiral), to cancel all non-emergency appointments and say nothing about the fall of Besançon to avoid creating panic. Daniel Larcher (Robin Renucci, Maigret) is in desperate need of supplies, as he believes refugees could flood into Villeneuve at any time. Word is out that the Germans have taken the city of Besançon and are now in Lyon, and Dr. A French Village opens with “The Landing” (“ Le Débarquement“) on 12 June 1940.
