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|quote=Massenet feels the story as a Frenchman, with the powder and the minuets. I shall feel it as an Italian, with desperate passion.
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Source
- Manon, Burton D Fisher, Opera Journeys Publishing, 2000, {{ISBN|1930841078}}, p. 16.