“At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays to boxes.”

—  Stendhal , book The Charterhouse of Parma

A la Scala, il est d'usage de ne faire durer qu'une vingtaine de minutes ces petites visites que l'on fait dans les loges.
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 6

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A la Scala, il est d'usage de ne faire durer qu'une vingtaine de minutes ces petites visites que l'on fait dans les loges.

La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839)

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