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, at the chapel of the Passionist Brothers on the avenue de la Reine-Hortense, the marriage of Monsieur Paul de Cassagnac to Mademoiselle...
I sent the following letter:
We go for a walk to see the preparations for this evening. It will be something splendid. The Republic throws dust in people's eyes — nothing like it...
I go to Caroline's to try things on and gossip. Then to the atelier to bid Julian farewell, for in two days' time I leave for Germany to have my...
I call at the Gavinis', where I meet the princess, the mother of the duc de Rivoli whom one sees in Nice and everywhere, and the duchesse de Valence....
The stories Doctor Michel tells! And they are, alas, true!
Monsieur Tholozan, and a friend of Monsieur Anitchkoff, came to make our acquaintance having received a letter from Anitchkoff. Monsieur Anet, the...
With Madame Gavini to the solemn requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of that poor young Queen of Spain.
How horrible! How disgusting it must be! I should prefer anything on earth... to feet! What repels me about Multedo and about all the others is feet!...
Yesterday, Sunday, Multedo came again, at the same time as the Orthodox priest. If the Corsican imagines he will have dealings with that personage...
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 meet 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 to...
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 of society goes to Frankfurt. Edouard Strauss is playing in the zoological gardens. I go as well, to see the famous Ariadne. She stands in...
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; fat Afrossimoff arrives, and we set about making music. In general no one has ever insisted on the charm of what I do — excepting,...
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 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...
I certainly do not think of Multedo — and yet I dreamt of him last night, and this morning I receive the following verses: the Rose sends me a...
Mademoiselle, I bless my letter for having irresistibly provoked your counsel. Would that I were as irresistible as my letter. *Among your counsels...
Dr Tomachewsky, who is the physician of the Petersburg Opera, must know something — moreover his opinions agree with those of Fauvel and others; and...
Madame Antonsky is a woman to be cultivated. She, Madame Doubelt, and Princess Galitzine will be very valuable to me if I ever go to seek my fortune...
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 households (the other has left again) from Petersburg joins our company, as well as old Prince Ouroussoff, whose sister,...
I disguised myself as an old German woman with odd ways and little quirks. And as the appearance of every new face excites the residents of ==the spa...
They are still talking about it at Soden; it will be told to next season's visitors.
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. So I 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 seize on...
To be scrupulous I must say that my princes played the Russian anthem, *On dit que l'on te marie*, and the Marseillaise. Afterwards we went to...
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...