Notes
Le Sport: a fashionable Parisian society gazette covering equestrian, sporting, and social life. Saint-Amand contributed regular notices. ↩
Astrakhan: curly lambskin fur from the Astrakhan region of Russia, fashionable for trimming and lining garments in this period. ↩
"P. Orell": Marie's pseudonym for her Salon criticism published in La Citoyenne, Hubertine Auclert's feminist newspaper. The praise moves her — the critics could not believe a woman so young wrote with such authority. ↩