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Pass the pickles, please, Major – Offenbach’s cornichons

In Jacques Offenbach’s hilarious operetta La Vie Parisienne, a young man named Gardefeu (which literally means ‘Holdfire’, an ambiguously naughty name typical of Offenbach’s comic characters) has decided to make the most of the foreign visitors arriving in Paris for the Second Universal Exhibition of 1866. He has learned of a Swedish Baron and Baroness...

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