Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Wednesday, 17 February 1875

It is raining. I go out with my aunt (blue dress). I go to the club — 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 — as bored as yesterday (blue cloth dress, white fichu, hair done).

Notes

In French in the original: cercle. ↩
Opera by Vincenzo Bellini (1831), one of the most popular works of the bel canto repertoire. ↩
Title in the original: Le petit Faust (Little 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. ↩