In France in the early sixties, a medieval TV series aimed at young audiences triumphed on television: Thierry la Fronde (1963–1966) told the adventures of a young nobleman, Thierry de Janville, who opposed the English occupation of Sologne during the Hundred Years’ War. Very quickly, however, this local Robin Hood gathered a much wider audience than originally targeted at a time when watching TV was essentially a family pastime. This series, which was loosely historical and relied on rather mediocre scenarios, became a huge success. Why did this historical fiction TV series for teenagers attract such tremendous interest? Probably because the medieval stone-slinging rebel became a metaphor for a modern “maquisard” and a symbol of the French Resistance in the Second World War, while the portrayal of the English occupation of Sologne in 1359 was very much reminiscent of the German Occupation of 1940. With the series being broadcast about twenty years after the end of the war, adult viewers picked up on this symbolism, recognizing behind the distant historical adventures offered to their children the stigmata of a more recent and equally painful story.