Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Monday, 1 September 1884

The return as yesterday — but encounters that will produce gossip. The Jew Hecht,hecht and the painters Béraud and Tissot.tissot Since Bastien's imminent death had been announced, his friends show a surprise mingled with pleasure.

# Lundi 1er septembre 1884

And people will say that we are taking him out for drives. It is true. But they will draw foolish conclusions.

Et on va dire que nous le promenons. C'est vrai. Mais on en déduira des bêtises.

Notes

Henri Hecht (1840–1891), prominent Paris art collector and patron. Marie uses an antisemitic formulation typical of her social world. ↩
Jean Béraud (1849–1935) and James Tissot (1836–1902), fashionable painters of Parisian life. Both were acquaintances of Bastien-Lepage. ↩