Nadia Lintz
Main character: Nadia Lintz
Country of origin: France
Main location: Paris
Creator: Thierry Jonquet
Born in: Paris, France
Born on: January 19, 1954
Died in: Rome
Died on: August 9, 2009
Nationality: French
Literary series title: Les enquêtes du juge Nadia Lintz et de l’inspecteur Rovère
Literary series started in: 1993, Les Orpailleurs (Eng. Transl.: The Gold Panners)
Original language: French
Publisher: Gallimard, Série Noire
Number of books: 2
Latest title publishes: 1998, Moloch
Translations: Yes
Television series title: Boulevard du Palais
Television series started in: 1999
Producer: Christophe Valett et Jean-Pierre Guérin
Number of seasons: 17
Latest season broadcast: 2017
Transnational distribution: Yes
Case study rationale
Boulevard du Palais is a crime fiction series TV created by Marie Guilmineau and distribute by France 2 that lasted from 1999 to 2017, based on two novels by Thierry Jonquet, Les Orpailleurs (1993) and Moloch (1998). The main character Nadia Lintz, played by Anne Richard, is an investigating judge (in French “juge d’instruction”), alongside with Commandant Rovère, played by Jean-François Balmer. In the series, the characters’ professional and private lives are interwoven : Lintz, at the beginning of the series, investigates a crime related to World War II, and spoliation of Jewish Property by nazis and French population (as her own father did). Her character embodies the urban heterosexual female, professionnally powerful but personnally experiencing loneliness. According to the realism of Jonquet’s novels, Nadia Lintz appears as a “human” and “accessible” character (Jost, 2001): her friendship with Rovère, her family ruptures, her quest for love and happiness make her accessible. Sarah Sepulchre told that groups of characters allow female character to access central positions in fiction. Actually, Nadia Lintz is deeply related to Commandant Rovère, a male character. Rovère appears as human but also embodies the traditional “hardboiled guy”: he is an alcoholic because of deep familial difficulties and frequently is in opposition to his hierarchy, but he’s also faithful to Nadia.
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Jean-François Balmer lit un extrait des Orpailleurs de Thierry Jonquet [in French]:
Jean-François Balmer lit un extrait des Orpailleurs de Thierry Jonquet [in French]:
Boulevard du Palais, interview Anne Richard [in French] :
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- Sellier, Geneviève. “Cultural Studies, gender et études filmiques”. Cultural Studies: Genèse, objets, traductions. Ed. Maxime Cervulle, Jade Lindgaard, Éric Macé et al. Paris : Éditions de la Bibliothèque publique d’information, 2010. 38-41.
- Sepulchre, Sarah. “6. Policier/scientifique, féminin/masculin dans les séries télévisées : Dépolarisation des caractérisations et réflexion sur les outils d’analyse”. L’assignation de genre dans les médias: Attentes, perturbations, reconfigurations. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014.
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