Monsieur Turquan, the agreeable officer with the Versailles ticket, and Monsieur de Jobal call on us. Then Mme Gavini — we stay on for ices, tea,...
The day amounts to two letters.
He must have received them this morning — but will that old beast say anything of it to his son?
Yesterday Caroline tried on the wedding dress. Mademoiselle Acard has never in her life worn a corset; for a Parisienne who is no Venus to abstain...
I do not know whether I am furious or whether I suffer at having missed this chance...
*Yesterday was celebrated, at the chapel of the Passionist Brothers on the avenue de la Reine-Hortense, the marriage of Monsieur Paul de Cassagnac to...
I sent the following letter:
I called at the Gavinis', where there was the canoness from the last time.
I go to Caroline's to try things on and gossip. Then to the studio to bid Julian farewell, for in two days' time I leave for Germany to have my...
I call at the Gavinis', where I encounter the princess, the mother of the duc de Rivoli whom one sees everywhere and in Nice, and the duchesse de...
The stories Doctor Michel tells! And they are, alas, true!
Monsieur Tholozan, [words blacked out: physician to the Shah for twenty-five years] and a friend of Monsieur Anitchkoff, came to make our...
With Madame Gavini to the solemn requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of that poor young Queen of Spain.
Do you know, my dears, that Multedo is seriously furious? It seems I seriously showed him the door yesterday. And this evening at the concert he told...
Yesterday, Sunday, Multedo came again, at the same time as the Priest. If the Corsican imagines he will have dealings with this personage through me,...
Yesterday, Sunday, Multedo came again, at the same time as the Priest. If the Corsican imagines he will have dealings with that personage through me,...
The company consists of Madame Antonsky, her son (from a first marriage), Monsieur Rembelinsky, and his wife; a Madame Abaza; a Monsieur Dourassoff —...
The company is augmented by Monsieur and Madame Afrossimoff. I for my part read my Livy. Maman writes that Multedo comes to see her, complains of...
I reread Monsieur Paul de Cassagnac's marriage notice in *Le Figaro* and cannot believe my eyes... I would not believe in this marriage at all, were...
The Hohenlohes — from the German Embassy in Paris — are coming here. Also the family of General Loris-Mélikoff, ennobled as count after the last war....
We encounter Madame Abaza at the Doctor's, and the whole day is spent together — walks, songs, inspecting the Parisian hats etc. In the evening I go...
At eight o'clock we set off for Wiesbaden — my aunt, Madame Abaza, and I. We go to church and thence to dinner, causing a sensation among the...
The whole company goes to Frankfurt. Edouard Strauss is playing in the zoological gardens. I go as well, to see the famous Ariadne. She stands in a...
Multedo does not know how to manage his affairs. He has sent me my guitar — mended. You can well imagine the difference a new guitar in a pretty case...
I was painting when fat Afrossimoff arrives, and we set about making music. In general no one has ever insisted on the charm of what I do —...
Madame de Hohenlohe has departed — only the two young men remain, who dined beside me at the table d'hôte today. They occupy the ground floor of the...
The two princes still dine beside me but are mute.
On the subject of the subscription for the Orphans of Auteuil, which *Le Figaro* initiated and which raised three hundred thousand francs, Paul de...
We were all assembled in the salon when Madame Rembelinsky appeared with my mandoline and my guitar — there was nothing for it but to sing *On dit...
Hans — the fair one. We have settled our plan of campaign... Madame Rembelinsky's and mine consists in pretending to avoid them, to not even notice...
I detest old women accompanied by little dogs — I wage war on my own family over every such matter — but the moment an outsider presumes to find...
Dr. Tomachewsky, who is the physician of the Petersburg Opera, must know something — moreover his opinions agree with those of Fauvel and others; and...
Berthe writes that Julie de Benkendorff has shot herself. You remember this Julie — this madwoman — married to an embassy secretary, living at a...
Everyone went to Frankfurt to see Monsieur Rembelinsky off. I still cough but my voice seems strong and clear. I sang this evening and there was a...
Yesterday I had a suckling pig roasted and invited the Russians. One eats in the most irregular fashion — at least I do. I cannot stomach the filth...
Prince Nicolas of Nassau and his wife, the Comtesse de Merenberg, a friend of the Batourines, dined beside us at the table d'hôte. I made no advances...
By dint of being tedious, Soden becomes amusing.
Now one of the fashionable Petersburg households joins our company, as well as old Prince Ouroussoff, whose sister, married to Monsieur Maltzov, is...
I disguised myself as an eccentric old German woman with strange habits and little quirks. And as the appearance of every new face excites the...
They are still talking about it at Soden — it will be recounted to the visitors of next season. The general laughter has spread even to my two...
Thanks to this sister, no one at dinner — but on my way to Thilenius's I see one of them, the dark one, with the princess, in the park. I then find...
I arrive at table quite flustered, having promised myself to be perfectly calm. The prince passes me the vinegar and blushes; I blush too. I take a...
Auguste is visibly declining — he arrived handsome; now he is ugly, he is ill-tempered. One recognises his bell — one has to hear him speak to the...
We go to see the Antonskys off... Here I am without Madame Rembelinsky, who used to pretend to be taken with Gans while I was also pretending — alas!...
I shall say nothing in reply to this new letter from Multedo.
It is decided — we are going to Ems; it would be perfect were it not for the regret of leaving my Gans. I do not know exactly which of the two is my...