When Repetto, the world reference in danse shoes since 1947, announced yesterday that it was getting into the perfume business and would introduce a powdery fresh parfum, the first thought that came to our minds was this would surely be an "odeur-rat."
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| Ageless photo made several years ago of children's tutus and ballet shoes in the Repetto store window, near the Opéra Garnier, Paris. Courtesy of Dr. Carol E. Cass |
un petit rat de l'opéra: a young ballet pupil
un jeune élève danseur de l'opéra: idem
une odeur: a smell
un rat: a rat
l'odorat: the sense of smell
un jeu de mots: a play on words; pun
un parfum: a perfume
©2011 P.B. Lecron
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