Wednesday, 17 February 1875

It rains. I go out with my aunt (blue dress). I go to the cercle — that is to say, to Rumpelmayer's. I forgot to say that last evening I was at the opera — La Sonnambula — and was bored. This evening at the Théâtre Français with Nadia, Sacha, and Julie — Le Petit Faust — equally bored (blue cloth dress, white fichu, hair done).

Notes

La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker): opera by Vincenzo Bellini (1831), one of the most popular works of the bel canto repertoire.
Le Petit Faust: comic operetta by Hervé (1869), a broad parody of Gounod's Faust.
Fichu: a triangular scarf worn folded around the shoulders and neck, fashionable in the 1870s.