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The operetta was the product of a world of ‘laissez faire, laissez passer’, that is, a world of economic, social and moral liberalism, a world in which everyone was able to do what he liked, so long as he abstained from questioning the system itself. This limitation meant, on the one hand, very wide, on the other, very narrow frontiers. The same government that summoned Flaubert and Baudelaire to a court of law tolerated the most insolent social satire, the most disrespectful ridiculing of the a
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
― The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
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Whatever comes, I'll take the good--and send the rest to hell.
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― Der Zigeunerbaron: Operette in 3 Acten
― Der Zigeunerbaron: Operette in 3 Acten
