Friday, 6 June 1879

The painting goes sluggishly — I work little, owing to the portrait of Jeanne, on whom one cannot rely as a model, and all this makes me lose time.
I went to Ferry's and there encountered the Comtesse Acard the elder. This old rag was ordering slippers in yellow kid leather trimmed with ears of wheat and wildflowers.
No doubt for her son-in-law.
Jeandron (Monsieur Ferry) told me that the former Comtesse Acard, now Madame Couvelet, is charming and elegant, and that her daughter is considerably less so. Well then — Mademoiselle Acard had as her witnesses Clément Laurier and Monsieur Couvelet, a former officer; that very Couvelet who eight days earlier had married the mother, who had had as her witness her future son-in-law: Paul de Cassagnac.