“In England the theatre has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people.”

—  Alfred De Vigny

Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
Page 348.
Journal d'un poète (1867)

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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.

Journal d'un poète (1867)

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