Etienne Alexandrovitch Babanine ("le petit Etienne")
Also known as: le petit Etienne, Etienne Alexandrovitch, Etienne Alexandrovitch Babanine
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Marie's small cousin, the young son of her uncle #Alexandre Babanine and his wife Nadine, who live at #Tcherniakovka. The Mon Journal t.9 index lists him as «Babanine (Etienne Alexandrovitch), cousin de Marie Bashkirtseff» (pp. 76, 78, 152, 281-282). The diary names him only as «le petit Etienne», which is why the bare tag ETIENNE (Georges's son, who died at sixteen) and the uncle Etienne (Stiopa; #Tante Etienne) are both wrong for him.
References in Diary
- 1876-09-15 (066.0238, 066.0239), Poltava: «lorsque Paul m'amena le petit Etienne, le fils d'Alexandre, je ne le reconnus pas le premier moment»; in 066.0239 someone leads Michel in by the hand and presents him to Etienne «comme mon fils ?»; the child believes it and plays and talks with «le principino» «comme avec un égal».
- 1876-10-30 (067.0384, 067.0386, 067.0387), leaving Tcherniakovka: «je recommandai au petit Etienne d'être bon avec elle» (the old great-aunt); «En la mettant sous la protection de cet ange…»; «L'enfant m'aime et il se souviendra de mes paroles.» (the unnamed child of 067.0385, 0386, 0387 is the same boy.)
- 1881-06-02 (092.0088): at the name-day party at Poltava: «Alexandre et le petit Etienne son fils».
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