Saturday, 4 October 1879

Gavini who has just arrived came at the same time as the Tchoumakoffs and Bichinsky and Goldsmid. This prevented me from going to Saint-Marceaux's with Amanda. For me at this moment painting is Bastien-Lepage and sculpture is de Saint-Marceaux.
This good Gavini, a true Bonapartist, conciliatory and understanding political deviations without practicing them.
I do not confess to him my intimate changes. But I do not at all hide my Gambettist sentiments besides... Name of a pipe! as the aristocrats say, nothing succeeds for me.