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Wednesday, 17 January 1883
This morning's Le Sport speaks again of the studio decorated by Bastien-Lepage.
"Le Sport" de ce matin parle encore de l'atelier decore par Bastien-Lepage.
I would rather receive a kick. Every vain pleasure of that evening is poisoned.
J'aimerais mieux recevoir un coup de pied. Tout le plaisir de vanite de cette soiree est empoisonne.
Prince Jérôme has been arrested for a manifesto posted yesterday.
Le prince Jerome est arrete pour un manifeste placarde hier.
The manifesto is neither republican nor Bonapartist, and yet what it calls for is just — a plebiscite.
Le manifeste n'est ni republicain, ni bonapartiste et pourtant ce qu'il demande est juste, un plebiscite.
It is a loyal and liberal imperialism that has a certain appeal — in the end it is the Republic with a hereditary empire... One hardly knows what to make of it. These idiots in the chamber voted to expel all the princes en bloc. Ah, if only Gambetta were alive.
*Il est* d'un imperialisme loyal et liberal qui plait assez...