#au service de la france

[suddenmovements]

[thekingofspies]

pov you see Bruno Paviot (Moulinier's actor) in any other media

[aspirateur-killeuse]

"Au service de la France", les services secrets français rencontrent la CIA

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"A very secret service", french secret services meet the CIA

[proustianlesbian]

i need jacky jacquard from au service de la france and roman roy succession to meet so badly.

i was just a few hours ago looking at a video of jacquard and thinking : "wait who does he remind me of, in a very uncanny way ? oh, roman roy !!". which is funny since i watched au service de la france way before i first heard of succession.

they are both :

small little dogs (affectionate but also derogatory).

part of an iconic trio that sometimes become a quatuor (in this scenario merlaux has the role of connor).

when i looked up the fandom, apparently everyone called him gay despite the fact that i hadn't noticed (but i've been thinking a lot of times about the scene in prison with moulinier and yeah you all were right).

right winger/conservative.

classy and drippy to be honest.

played by an actor whose first name starts with "k".

obvious physical ressemblance and similar manierisms as well.

so, what would happen in that room ? gay ***, insults battle or both ? vote now at home and on your phones.

[suppenzeit]

i promise ill draw something better but heres calot dressing appropriately for north african weather

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

a few years ago i watched this french spy show on netflix (i don't think it's there anymore) called a very secret service. i generally enjoyed it alright but it contains a truly baffling subplot that still haunts me to this day.

basically what you need to know is a) the main character andré's father has been missing or presumed dead or something since before he was born and all he has left of him is a picture of his military unit; b) andré's boss served in the military with the missing dad, meaning he's also in that picture; c) andré is dating the boss' daughter but the boss wants them to break up, and so d) the boss tells andré that he's the aforementioned missing dad, hoping that his daughter and andré will break up on account of the (presumed) incest.

which would be fine, if a little convoluted, except that they had the actor who plays andré pose as his dad in this plot significant photograph so like. did they forget? are we supposed to assume andré has face blindness? are they playing 4d comedy chess where they seem to play this plot straight but we, the audience, are supposed to recognize that it's ridiculous that andré believes his boss might actually be his dad when he looks literally identical to his actual dad?

[germinage]

Oui bonjour ça va genre être mon premier post de ma vie sur Tumblr, mais c'est parce que quand même j'ai vu que ce fandom avait une petite communauté sur Tumblr alors voilà

J'ai écrit une fanfic sur Au service de la France, mais c'est ni sur Moulinier/Jacquard/Calot j'en suis désolé, c'est sur Moïse et les co-directeurs adjoints, parce que j'ai un problème avec Antoine Gouy

Pour donner une idée voici les ships : Moïse/Schmid et One-sided Moïse/Lechiot

Oui c'est chelou mais je suis heureux de ce que j'ai créé. Si vous voulez le résumé (pas ouf car je sais pas en faire) :

"Georges est maintenant directeur du service, faisant de Schmid son directeur adjoint.

Mais Schmid ne perd pas ses habitudes et, lorsque Georges reste tard au bureau pour terminer son travail, il lui emmène une tasse de thé.

S'ensuit une conversation avec son collègue et quelques souvenirs concernant ses anciens co-directeurs adjoints, et notamment le premier."

Voilà je poste ça ici pour ceux et celles qui seraient encore là concernant ce fandom et qui voudrait découvrir ça

[averygayservice]

more details about "a very secret service" yay !

so, me and @thequeenofspies got bored and spend an unholy time founding what cigarettes they are all smoking; here you go :

moulinier - "Royale Rouge"

(it was actually the easiest to find bro is always smoking i have so many screenshot of his pack of cigarettes)

jacquard - "Algeria"

(possibly the hardest, there's only one scene when you can kinda see it and it's so blury)

moïse - "Celtiques"

(i think we can see them in other shots but i'm lazy)

merlaux - "Gauloises"

(it's funny bc it's the light version of the Celtiques also this one was very easy too)

for calot, we can't tell bc he uses a little box where you put your cigarettes in so eh

and for mercaillon well fuck him i don't want to know

and i find those little details so cool bc it weirdly actually tells a lot about them ? like merlaux smokes des gauloises and they're the classic french cigarettes, very basic, almost a french symbol. moises smokes des celtiques, very french but older than the gauloises, more nicotines, i think we could say it link him to merlaux like an older him (and since he's his father figures it's rlly cute). jacquard smokes des algeria which is very obvious, he probably buy them when he's in alger and they are (according to my mom) cheaper so it goes with his money oriented mindset (+ it also goes with his love for his work zone and you can't tell me jacquard doesn't actually deeply love algeria bc i will not believe u this man is in his element there i will not elaborate). moulinier smokes des royales, kinda expensive cigarettes, very classy, goes with his lifestyle (champagne, fancy bars like the darling club, fancy clothes as we can see him wearing a lot of different suits). and as for calot, the fact that he uses a metal box for his cigarettes also tells a lot, he is a mysterious and paranoid character, probably doesn't want anyone to know anything about him (and we actually don't know a lot about him compared to other characters).

i rlly love all the little details in this tv show, i could spend hours looking for them and talking about them tbh, it is just so smart and well done.

[damedianariggalbumphoto]

Diana dans "Au service secret de sa majesté".

[aramielles]

norpois et mercaillon dans au service de la france c’est juste pierre dux

[grinchwrapsupreme]

it's honestly a travesty that none of the Quebecois scenes from Au Service de la France have made their way onto tumblr

[thekingofspies]

Can't believe tomorrow i'm gonna do a whole presentation on ASDLF in front of my english class

[hibiscusbabyboy]

Clovis Fouin comme Guy dans 《 Au Service de la France 》 (2015-2018)

[proustianlesbian]

feeling like i'm back to my obsession with au service de la france/a very secret service but i can't find a torrent site with working links, this is the worst thing ever to me

[suppenzeit]

boring sketches to figure these guys out

[mikesierra]

this is fantastic *chef's kiss*

i'll go a step ahead and say that maybe jeremy is ferré's son from an algerienne woman (scout's ma) and instead of trying to join the kgb like merlaux, scout would try to join the FLN while officially working against the liberation of algeria.

sniper's position is also super funny (i have a soft spot for the lanky man sry) in that, he may be super good at his job but he doesn't really seem to catch up the complex nuances of being an undercover agent and so he tags along the other agents where needed but he ends up not knowing socio-cultural cues by the places he visits so he always almost gets his cover blown or at least he ends up in some remote jail for a night, until one of the spies (or pauline) gets all the way there and bails him out.

i also LOVE that you kept both heavy and calot because, knowing the latter, they would not trust each other and sometimes find themselves working on the same task independently and almost blowing each other's cover. in their arguments, at least once misha picked up calot on his shoulders and simply left the premises. like a true russian does.

i can't even start with CIA soldier... this is so great and funny and opens a lot of possible roads ahead for different stories.

please PLEASE tell me more about the tf2 a very secret service au because i'm living for this particular crossover and i was about to plan an au fic (i swear i won't steal your ideas tho). have you already got anything posted? sorry for the. vigor. it's just such a niche crossover that i can't believe someone else thought of that.

(for anyone clueless here A very secret service is a french TV show i obsessed about and mentioned wanting to do an AU for)

i'm genuinely flabbergasted that someone else crossed these two things in their mind holy shitttt and please do feel free to take (its not stealing !!) any idea from this cause i'd be fucking ecstatic to see what you make of it ?? Anyways i hadn't posted anything so here's the little i have !!

The first thought that sprung up the whole idea was surprisingly how much miss pauling fit Avss and how similar she was to Marie-Jo. So they're bffs now and their relationship to Moses evolve together !

The administrator retains a role quite similar to the canon of tf2. She puppets things from the shadows and is the one giving Mercaillon all the phone calls instead of the president directly.

The spies are agents and work mainly on french ground but they kind of oversee all the other agents as the oldest most experienced ones. Ferré (red spy) is still secretly scout's dad; scout (Jérémy) being a newly hired agent in training alongside Merlaux ! (I still have to draw scout). They can be called to oversee missions from the other agents in the other territories tho ! This is them in Algers :3

Heavy and Medic are now contacts for the french services. Ludwig works for the BND (west german allies of france during the cold war) and Misha works for the KGB in east germany but betrays them for france thanks to Ludwig's irresistible charm.

I've already thought up roles for all the mercs i haven't drawn yet; pyro and engie work at the workshop & supplies department together; sniper is a general sniper that can be affected on a mission alongside any other agent; soldier is one of the CIA contact agents, and demo is a SIS (british services) one !