 Along with Robert Planquette's "Les cloches de Corneville", "La fille de Madame Angot" was the most successful work of the French-language musical theatre in the last three decades of the 19th century, and outperformed other noted international hits such as "H.M.S.Pinafore" and "Die Fledermaus".The opera depicts the romantic exploits of Clairette, a young Parisian florist, engaged to one man but in love with another, and up against a richer and more powerful rival for the latter's attentions.