Monday, 1 May 1882

We go to see the Queen with Maman, and then to the Salon with Villevieille. I am charming in grey, with the look of a rebel.
[In the margin: To the Queen's — in the hope of meeting Cassagnac.]
We chat with Bastien and then with Carolus-Duran, who accompanies us all the way to the carriage.

Notes

Queen Isabel II of Spain, in exile at the Palais de Castille on the Avenue Kléber, kept a Bonapartist salon.
Faux air de frondeuse: the slight air of a frondeuse — a female rebel, evoking participants in the 17th-century Fronde civil war. Marie's self-image: elegantly defiant.