"1966: The Cathars Return" is the title of the program "L'Histoire en direct" broadcast on June 7, 1999. On that day, Emmanuel Laurentin returned to another famous program, "La Caméra explore le temps," and the last episode of this very popular program by Alain Decaux. His subject: the Cathars. For most viewers this subject was unknown, but the abrupt termination of the program by Stellio Lorenzi, Alain Decaux, and André Castelot by the Gaullist government would make the Cathar theme a fashionable one. Viewers, gathered in TV clubs in municipal halls, would discover a part of their bloody and forgotten history: the crusade against the Albigensians.

This documentary from "L'Histoire en direct", between history and memory, will attempt to understand how the Cathar myth was reconstructed in the 1960s following the program "La Caméra explore le temps".

• Production: Emmanuel Laurentin

• With Alain Decaux, Michèle O'Glor, Michel Roquebert, Anne Brenon, Henri Gougaud, Guy Vassal and Claude Marti

• Directed by: Christine Robert

• History Live - 1966: The Cathars Return - First broadcast: 07/06/1999

• Web indexing: Sandrine England, Radio France Sound Documentation