Diary › Notebook 082 › 1878-09-19 CZENUKFR Previous entry Notebook 082 Next entry ❦ Thursday, 19 September 1878 Thursday, 19 September 1878⚜Mme Antonsky came to see us.Madame Antonsky est venue nous voir.⚜What an existence, my Emperor!1Quelle existence, mon Empereur ! Notes "My Emperor": a theatrical apostrophe to her diary or imagined reader; the Bonapartist exclamation may invoke Napoleon III (or his memory) as a rhetorical figure. ↩ Previous entry Notebook overview Next entry