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Massenet feels the story as a Frenchman, with the powder and the minuets. I shall feel it as an Italian, with desperate passion.

— Giacomo Puccini, on Manon Lescaut

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Manon, Burton D Fisher, Opera Journeys Publishing, 2000, ISBN 1930841078, p. 16.