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Alexandre Dumas père (1802–1870) was notorious for employing a workshop of ghost-writers, most famously Auguste Maquet, for his prolific output. ↩
Allusion to the Spartan boy who stoically concealed a stolen fox beneath his cloak rather than cry out in pain. ↩
La Fille de Mme Angot: wildly popular 1872 operetta by Charles Lecocq. ↩
Massenet was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France) in 1878. ↩