Wednesday, 24 December 1879

Here is the article from the Figaro that amuses me all day long. [Missing] I have brought Joseph luck; obscure and unknown, I have made him fashionable, like white dresses three years ago, like...
As I leave the studio with de Daillens, we walk down the boulevards on foot and then go to her place to eat cherry tart with some lunch, and then her mother arrives, along with David and M. Dubois. The latter speaks to me of introducing Meyer (Jacques) who brought down M. de Marcere.
It is through these schemers that one can make oneself a Republican salon, and as more important people arrive one will eliminate the chorus girls, he says.

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In English in the original.