Monday, 2 February 1880

We go to see The Nabob at the Vaudeville; it is the fourth performance. The house is very elegant, and we have a considerable parade of cocottes. The young Fleury, Viscount de Gassin, Jacques Abattucci, Count de Germiny (the nephew of the disgraced one, very well received), Wodzinsky, etc., etc.
We are in a very smart stage box, but only two seats have a view of the stage; Gavini himself saw nothing. The young Count Vaudal offered the box to Adeline yesterday at Princess Mathilde’s. The play is a contraption built for sensation; you know, this Daudet hardly bothers to disguise the names of his characters.

Notes

Daudet’s novel, here in its stage version at the Vaudeville. ↩