Notes
Saint-Amand: a friend and social acquaintance of the Bashkirtseff family, evidently a figure on the fringes of the Parisian artistic and literary world. He appears intermittently in the diary as someone given to ambitious, impractical plans. ↩
The Hôtel Rambouillet: the famous 17th-century Parisian salon of the Marquise de Rambouillet (1588–1665), a model of literary and aristocratic social gathering. To invoke it as a precedent was the highest aspiration for any Parisian salon-keeper. ↩