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Query: "Il pleut toujours en Suisse"
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In "Speak, Memory"'s chapter V, "Mademoiselle O," VN, after a visit
to his aged former governess, walks along in a drizzle. "Il pleut toujours
en Suisse" was one of those causal comments which, formerly, had made
Mademoiselle weep."
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Can anyone comment on that "Il pleut toujours en Suisse"? Is it from a
poem? Perhaps a standard textbook example of something, e.g., "The rain in
Spain....,etc.
Thanks in advance?
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
to his aged former governess, walks along in a drizzle. "Il pleut toujours
en Suisse" was one of those causal comments which, formerly, had made
Mademoiselle weep."
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Can anyone comment on that "Il pleut toujours en Suisse"? Is it from a
poem? Perhaps a standard textbook example of something, e.g., "The rain in
Spain....,etc.
Thanks in advance?
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618