How many episodes are in Montmartre?

Montmartre has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does Montmartre premiere?

Montmartre premieres on 2025-09-29.

Is Montmartre a new series?

Montmartre is a new series (Season 1).

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Montmartre(2025)

Archived · TF1

10+8 eps

S01

DramaHistory

ON AIR: SEP 29Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Montmartre runs three separate storylines in parallel, each one built around a character making a desperate bargain: a cabaret dancer trading her body for information, a wealthy engineer risking his inheritance to stop living a lie, a laundress escaping a brothel with her life barely intact. The series holds back the fact connecting all three of them, so the structure itself becomes the suspense.

1899 Paris here is not backdrop; it is the mechanism of constraint. Class determines what each character can risk and what they must sacrifice to survive it. Céleste's arrangement with the inspector is transactional and grim. Arsène's rebellion against his father carries real financial consequences. Rose's escape from captivity is physical and ongoing. The show moves slowly and deliberately, accumulating pressure across all three threads before the blood connection between them finally surfaces.

Best for

period family mystery, desperate choices and Drama

Story lane

Drama and History

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

TF1

Official Premise

In 1899, Céleste, a can-can dancer in a Montmartre cabaret, desperately tries to find the brother and sister from whom she was brutally separated as a child when their father was murdered before their eyes. To pay Léon, the inspector tasked with finding them, she has no choice but to become Paris's first stripper. Arsène, a young automobile engineer from the wealthy neighborhoods, is preparing to take over the reins of his father's factory. Engaged, he cannot bring himself to marry even though he secretly loves men. He then takes the risk of opposing his father and suddenly breaks off his engagement. Rose, a young laundress from the suburbs, deeply in love, is preparing to start a family with her fiancé. But her dream is short-lived when he actually leads her to a brothel where she is locked up. Rose manages to escape, but pursued by her pimps, she throws herself into the Marne and finds herself between life and death. None of our three heroes realizes that blood ties connect them.

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