Friday, 6 December 1878

"Telegraphed from Plaisance, Gers, 5 December: The people of Plaisance turned out on Tuesday to the Château du Couloumé, despite the six kilometers separating it from the town, and gave Mme Paul de Cassagnac, visiting with her husband at Mme de Cassagnac the mother's, an enthusiastic reception."
Will I even be able to become a painter of talent? When I had less need of it I believed my teachers' predictions — but now that I need it absolutely, I doubt, and it is a degrading annihilation.
It would be better to say nothing — what I say is as pitiable as I am myself.