Tuesday, 23 March 1880

Soutzo brings me Count Lepic, who is a painter and crackpot. This man irritated me with advice I had no use for, but it seems it will earn me a few kind words in L'Evenement and in another newspaper.
Mesdames Gavini and Richaud came to see me, and later Collignon, Wodzinski, and again Soutzo and Florence Graham.
And so I come home and meet Berthe at the door, who has come to show the photograph of the baby. Soutzo at dinner, and afterward the pope.