Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Tuesday, 15 February 1881

Thirty-two days until the Exhibition.
That mad princess is back from Nice and staying at our house with her two children; she came yesterday too with Bojidar. They leave early and Alexis stays until we throw him out... for the atelier’s sake.
I am fond of him because he finds me “stunning” and so “well-curved” — truly too well-curved; God gave me too much of it, so I am unique. He also finds me pretty — I know this through indirect channels and from his conversation.
It adds spice to our conversations.

Notes

The Salon of 1881 opened in May; Marie is counting down the 32 days remaining to submit her entry. ↩
Marie’s coinage: galbeuse [sic] — her invented or half-heard word from galbe (curve, contour); used admiringly of a shapely figure. She treats it with ironic pride. ↩