Tuesday, 22 May 1877

I have made Alexandre commonplace by dint of talking about him.
Tichkevitch has taken his leave, and Galula came to see us and, speaking of Leghorn, mentioned the Larderel family; naturally I asked whether he knew him, and the most celebrated of all the Galulas answered that he did...
— The little one? Yes, I knew him, very slightly. The one who is mad, well, cracked? He used to walk about in impossible clothes under a Chinese parasol.
Besides, that is all one hears about him here; they have all passed the word round.