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MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) - MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French Composer. An excellent A.M.Q.S., J. Massenet, one page, oblong 8vo, Paris, 1885. The composer has neatly penned four bars of music, with carefully written words beneath (´N´est-ce plus ma main que cette main preserve? N´est-ce plus ma voix?.. N´est-elle pour toi plus une caresse?..´) in French, which he identifies and underlines at the heading from his opera `Manon (acte III)´. Inscribed to his friend Victor Roger. The musical quotation is dated in 1885, the year after the premiere. Small traces of former mounting to the edges, otherwise VG £150-200 Victor Roger (1853-1903) French operettas Composer. Manon (1884) Opera composed by Massenet. The quotation corresponds to the well-known soprano aria of Manon in the third act.