Friday, 23 April 1880

We go to see La vie de Bohème, which I already knew.
Madame Gavini and her husband, back since yesterday; Nervo, Dina, and I. And Soutzo who comes bringing three boxes of sweets — with Nervo’s that makes four. He comes to see us or dozes in his armchair, and in our box everyone makes fun of him; apparently he has the look of a man madly in love with me. I do not believe it, but it is possible.

Notes

The play La Vie de bohème (1849) by Théodore Barrière and Henri Murger, drawn from Murger’s Scènes de la vie de bohème (“Scenes of Bohemian Life”); kept under its French title. ↩