Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Monday, 18 December 1882

It is a dreary discouragement — the end of everything; my back aches, my legs ache, my hair falls flat and straight.

C'est un decouragement morne, la fin de tout, j'en ai mal dans le dos, dans les jambes, mes cheveux tombent plats et droits.

Saint-Marceaux sends two invitations for the exhibition in the rue de Sèze,1 and Bastien has sent five.

Saint Marceaux envoie deux invitations pour l'exposition de la rue de Seze et Bastien en a envoye cinq.

Notes

The rue de Sèze exhibition: the annual winter exhibition of the Cercle des arts libéraux, held at their premises on the rue de Sèze near the Madeleine. A prestigious small exhibition of invited artists, quite distinct from the official Salon — it was at this exhibition that Marie would encounter Saint-Marceaux's sculpture the following day. ↩