"Même les anges succombent à l'amour" -- Sir Noël Coward's "Fallen angels" (April 21, 1925).

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Heinz Kosok, Jürgen Kamm - 1999 - 944 pages - Snippet view

"As the line from the song ("Meme les anges succombent a l'amour", I, 190) indicates, Julia and Jane are "fallen angels" in the sense that they fall for love.

The play is thus an amusing comment on marriage as an institution which stifles ...

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