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A series that resurrects one of the biggest skeletons in the closet of the Portuguese Second Republic.
Unlike the monarchist times, where the sexual antics of kings and queens fluctuated between the picturesque and the grotesque, the successive republican regimes in Portugal were very weak of bedroom peccadilloes. We don't have things like that French president who died in a sexual act with a mistress in the Presidential Palace, nor do we have anything like the scandal that shaken Bill Clinton's term in the White House. We are a very moralistic, Catholic country, which gives importance to appearances and which seeks to keep their peccadilloes in the intimacy of closed walls. Therefore, the impact of the Ballet Rose Case is understand...