Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Thursday, 16 April 1874

It is not raining, and everyone hurries to the exhibition. I come alone and a little late; Paul and Walitsky come to meet me. I admired above all a sow of prodigious size, so fat she could not move, with six piglets, enormous and white like her. The rooster Mephistopheles so charmed me that I want to buy it.
I took a turn everywhere with my aunt, who is amiable today, and in the evening I asked her for five francs; she gave them -- o miracle!
An old man from Nadar's photography is in the Monaco pavilion; he has an extraordinary admiration for my person. I enter the pavilion and he comes to greet me and to look at me so strangely that it disgusted me. He thanked Maman for my having come. Now it disgusts me.