Père François

In Le cheval pâle, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Père François is the parallel of Father Gorman in the original story.

At the beginning of the episode, he turns up at commissaire Laurence's office and produces a list of names. He says that in handing over the list he was obeying the wishes of a dying woman, one Geneviève Millet who had told him that she had been the "assassin" of the names on the list. The woman subsequently died of natural causes.

Père François was subsequently murdered in his church. The names on his list was slightly different from those in the original novel: Bevilaqua, Van der Gluck, Delafontaine, Petit and Marchal. Only the last of the names had a question mark. Euphrasie Maillol, the pathologist also found on François a bible which had belonged to Madame Millet. It had been dog-eared on the page with the verse from Revelation 6:8 which Millet had underlined. This verse referred to the fourth horseman riding on a pale horse, and it's rider's name was death. This is the first mention of the pale horse in this episode.