Les Contes de la rue Broca - Characters & Cast

His motivation is to share the joy and wisdom of stories with the younger generation. He sees the imaginative potential in Bachir and Nadia and nurtures it by telling them tales that are fantastical yet emotionally resonant.

As the series' narrator and framing character, Monsieur Pierre doesn't have a dynamic arc but serves as the stable, wise, and mysterious conduit to the world of imagination. He is the constant who brings magic into the children's lives. According to the author Pierre Gripari, M. Pierre is his literary alter ego. His presence reinforces the series' core message about the power of oral storytelling.

Her primary motivation is curiosity and a desire for adventure. Within the tales, her motivation is often survival or helping others, such as when she shows kindness to the old woman who is secretly the witch.

Nadia is one of the listeners in the frame story and often the protagonist within the tales themselves. Her arc is not sequential but thematic. In stories like "La Sorcière de la rue Mouffetard," she represents childhood innocence targeted by dark forces. However, through courage and the help of others, she overcomes these threats. She embodies the resilience and inherent goodness of children.

Bachir is motivated by a boyish curiosity and a desire to understand the world. His questions often prompt Monsieur Pierre to elaborate on the tales, making the narrative more interactive.

Like his sister Nadia, Bachir is both a listener and a participant in the stories. He often represents the practical, inquisitive side of childhood. His interruptions and questions to Monsieur Pierre during the storytelling ground the tales in a child's logic. He doesn't have a multi-episode arc, but within each story, he often learns a lesson about cleverness, bravery, or the consequences of one's actions.

Her motivations are primal and selfish: to regain her youth by eating a child, or to torment the inhabitants of a house she haunts. She is driven by vanity and a desire for power.

The witch is a recurring archetype in the series, appearing in two of the most famous tales. Her arc is contained within her respective episodes. She represents a classic fairy-tale evil—selfish, deceptive, and predatory. However, she is always outsmarted by the cleverness and goodness of children, demonstrating the theme that intelligence and virtue can defeat malice.