Tuesday, 4 June 1878

The town house at 250,000 francs and all the rest — for me, who so love my home, my books, my notebooks, my inkpot... yes, but nothing of the sort! There are people who have everything; I have nothing.
I went to the Exhibition and then to the Bois. At the Exhibition we meet the Marquis de Pascarola, from Naples; at the Bois, the whole world.
Marcuard is no doubt vexed about his April Fool’s joke, for he has not come again.
The soirée of M. de Tunis, assistant director at the Foreign Ministry, appears in Le Figaro and in two other papers. We are mentioned.
I had something to say... I no longer remember.
Fio wants me to come with her and her people to lunch tomorrow at the Exhibition. They leave the day after tomorrow. I would rather go to the Salon with de Daillens and arrange to meet some gentlemen there.
I had resigned myself to being bored with the English because they were to go to the Chamber, and I would have gone with them — but they leave the day after tomorrow, so no more Versailles. So I need make no sacrifices.
I think I am going to undertake a piece of work... I am already at it... in Germany I shall have time to write — perhaps even before.