Softly from Paris  

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Série rose: Les Chefs d’œuvre de la littérature érotique is a French television series of 28 episodes of 26 minutes each, produced by Pierre Grimblat and first broadcast from November 8 1986 on to 1990 on FR3.

In 1988 and 1990, Walerian Borowczyk directed four episodes for the series, which consisted of libertine fiction from the 18th century to the 20th century.

Série rose was bought by German and South-American and American television where they were known as Erotisches zur Nacht or Softly from Paris (USA).

The cast included Pénélope Cruz, directors included Alain Schwartzstein, Harry Kumel, Jaime Chavarri, Michel Boisrond and Walerian Borowczyk.

Harry Kumel's contributions were separately released as The Secrets Of Love: Three Rakish Tales.

Episodes

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see list of episodes from Série rose

1. Augustine de Villebranche
2. La Fessée after a story by Marguerite de Navarre, directed by Harry Kumel
3. Le Libertin de qualité after a story by Comte de Mirabeau, directed by Christian Faure
4. L'Élève, after a story by Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne
5. La Serre, directed by Harry Kumel
6. Une villa à la campagne, directed by Maurice Fasquel, after Anton Chekhov
7. Le Demi-mariage, after a story by Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne
8. Le Partenaire inattendu
9. La Revanche, directed by Harry Kumel
10. La Mandragore, directed by Harry Kumel
11. L'Épreuve de l'amour
12. Elle et lui, starring Penélope Cruz
13. Almanach des adresses des demoiselles de Paris, directed by Walerian Borowczyk
14. Un traitement justifié, directed by Walerian Borowczyk
15. La Dame galante, Isabelle Mergault (scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
16. Les Leçons de Bucciuolo, directed by Péter Gárdos
17. La Conversion
18. Le Lotus d'or, written by Patrick Pesnot, directed by Walerian Borowczyk
19. L'Experte Halima, directed by Walerian Borowczyk
20. À la feuille de rose, maison turque, after a novel by Guy de Maupassant
21. La Gageure des trois commères, after a fable by Jean de La Fontaine
22. Hercule aux pieds d'Omphale, after a novel by Théophile Gautier
23. Le Style Pompadour, directed by Michel Boisrond
24. Lady Roxane, after Daniel Defoe's Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
25. La Grève de l'amour, after the Lysistrata story by Aristophanes
26. Le Signe directed by Fred Hilberdink