D

Mme d'Auzac (Mon Journal indexes: «Auzac (Mme d')» t.2 p.259, t.3 p.114, t.5 p.118, t.6 p.311; «Auzac (M. d')» t.5 p.84, t.6 p.311, t.10 p.182), a lady of the Nice colony who belonged, with Mme del Borgo and Mme de Bargemsat, to the «troïka» of the Promenade (margin note of 1874-03-14, 017.0310; see [#Mme de Bargemsat](../recurring/DE_BARGEMSAT.md)).

Da Costa

Da Costa Motta

[Research needed]

Dachad

- Type: people - mentioned

Dady

A person who recognizes Marie along with Brady. Part of Nice society.

Daily News

The Daily News, the London Liberal daily founded by Charles Dickens in January 1846 (en.wikipedia «The Daily News (UK)»; merged into the News Chronicle in 1930).

Dalgoutte

A ticket vendor or music shop in Nice where concert tickets are sold.

Dalmas

- Type: people - mentioned

Dame aux Perles

- Type: people - mentioned

Daniloff

Mme Daniloff, a Russian lady of the Nice colony and a friend of the Bashkirtseff household from 1873, mother of a little girl (see [#Jeanne Daniloff](JEANNE_DANILOFF.md)). The Mon Journal indexes list «Daniloff (Mme)» in t.1–t.10 and «Daniloff (Jeanne)» separately. Her forename is not given.

Dante

- Type: people - mentioned

Daraujo

- Type: people - mentioned

Daria

Marie's spelling of Jacques Damala (born Aristides Damalas, 1855–1889), the Greek-born actor, former officer, who married Sarah Bernhardt in London on 4 April 1882 (en.wikipedia «Jacques Damala»; a footnote on the diary entry gives the same date).

Darwin

- Type: people - mentioned

Dassorkine

- Type: people - mentioned

Dautoy

David

- Type: people - mentioned

de Biesme

Vicomte Desmanet de Biesme, the elegant stranger Marie notices at Spa in August 1874 and cannot forget. The name belongs to an old noble family of the southern Netherlands, with the lordship of Biesme (now in Belgium) acquired in 1709 (everybodywiki «Famille Desmanet»; en.wikipedia «Sart-Eustache Castle»); that a vicomte of the family is meant is Marie's own statement.

de Bouville

- Type: people - mentioned

De Brazza

[Research needed]

de Fayet

De l'Allemagne (Madame de Staël)

*De l'Allemagne* (1810-1813) is Germaine de Staël's book on German life, literature, philosophy and religion, written during her exile from Napoleon's France. The first edition of 10,000 copies, printed in 1810, was destroyed on the Emperor's orders; the book was published in London in 1813 and exercised a major influence on French Romanticism (Wikipedia, "On Germany"; the author's own preface in the Gutenberg text is dated 1810 and 1813). Part I treats the country and its manners: chapter IX, **"Des étrangers qui veulent imiter l'esprit français"**, argues that since Louis XIV the good society of the whole Continent has taken pride in imitating the French, that conversation is "l'art" in which the French are "passés maîtres", and that foreigners who copy them "affectent plus d'immoralité, et sont plus frivoles qu'eux"; "la gloire et même l'agrément de chaque pays consistent toujours dans le caractère et l'esprit national".

de Lareintie

A social acquaintance encountered at the Grand Prix at Longchamp on 30 May 1880: "Pernety, Nervo [...] L. Chevreau, prince de Monaco, Dufour, de Lareintie etc. etc." A figure from the fashionable society attending the Grand Prix horse race. No further biographical details available.

de Martino

- Type: people - mentioned

De Mertens

de Mouzay

De Rosa

- Type: people - mentioned

de Tanlay

- Type: people - mentioned

DE_BARGEMSAT

Mme de Bargemsat, named in a margin note Marie added to the diary of 1874-03-14 (017.0310): «[Dans la marge: *Troïka*: je nomme Mmes del Borgo, d'Auzac et de Bargemsat.]». The note glosses the sentence «La préfecture avec la *troïka* était au premier rang» of the concert in Nice that day: the troika (the Russian three-horse team) is Marie's nickname for the three ladies she names. The Mon Journal t.3 index has «Bargemsat (Mme de), 114» (the page of this passage). See [#Mme d'Auzac](../mentioned/D_AUZAC.md) for another of the three.

Death & Mourning

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs describing literal death events: funerals, burials, mourning periods, and encounters with the dead. Distinguished from the broader [MORTALITY](MORTALITY.md) theme, which captures Marie's figurative and philosophical preoccupation with death. Tag paragraphs with DEATH when they describe an actual death, a funeral or burial, mourning dress or behaviour, cemetery visits, or funeral music/services. Use MORTALITY for metaphorical death language ("il est mort pour moi") or existential reflections.

Death and funeral of Marie Bashkirtseff (1884)

Marie Bashkirtseff died at her family's house, 30 rue Ampère in Paris, on **31 October 1884**, eleven days after the last entry of the diary, aged twenty-five, three weeks before what would have been her twenty-sixth birthday (Kernberger 2013, Chronology; fr.wikipedia.org, "Marie Bashkirtseff", citing Bard and Chaperon, *Dictionnaire des féministes*, 2017). She had had tuberculosis since about 1874 (Hélard-Cosnier 1993; fr.wikipedia.org). The funeral was held on **Thursday 6 November 1884** at the Russian Orthodox church in the rue Daru. The coffin was afterwards laid in a vault until the chapel that Émile Bastien-Lepage designed for her at Passy was ready (see [Tomb of Marie Bashkirtseff](../../places/landmarks/TOMBE_MARIE_BASHKIRTSEFF.md)).

Del Puente I

The marquis del Puente, a Spanish gentleman Marie meets at Spa in the summer of 1874; the diary's «Del Puente I» is the tag for the single man. The Mon Journal t.4 index has «Puente (marquis del)» on pp. 20, 42–43, 54, 67, 78, 91, 107, 154 (the Spa and Paris weeks).

Delacroix

[Research needed]

Delattre

[Research needed]

Delaunay

- Type: people - mentioned

Delbecchi

Stationery shop owner in Nice where Marie purchases notebooks for her diary.

Delbeechi

Amédée Delbecchi (Marie writes «Delbeechi»), stationer and bookseller of Nice, from whom the family buys books and drawing materials. Mon Journal indexes: «Delbeechi, papetier, 100» (t.1), «Delbecchi, libraire, 33, 241» (t.2), «Delbecchi Amédée, papetier, 5» (t.3), «Delbeechi (Amédée), (libraire), 58» (t.5).

Delmas

Marie's shoemaker in Paris (Mon Journal t.14 index: «Delmas (M.), cordonnier: 108»). On 1881-03-28 (091.0387): «J'ai un cordonnier qui s'appelle Delmas et qui fait de mon pied, déjà petit, un objet de curiosité. On ne comprend pas comment on marche avec ça, c'est étroit, pointu, pas naturel mais joli et étonnant. Cela a causé une sorte de stupéfaction aux dames du Palais, et M. de Merced ne cache pas son étonnement.» A single mention; no first name or shop address was found.

Delsarte

Demi-monde

*Demi-monde* ("half-world") is the society of kept women and courtesans and the men who frequented them, on the margin of respectable society. The word was coined by Alexandre Dumas fils in his comedy *Le Demi-Monde* (1855) and was in everyday use by the 1870s (Wikipedia, "Demi-monde"). Marie uses it as the opposite of *le monde*, the society she wants to belong to.

Demoiselles Basilewsky

- Type: people - mentioned

Demosthenes

- Type: people - mentioned

Denis

Denis Family

French family in Marie's Paris social circle in 1880. Both the father ("le père Denis") and mother ("la mère Denis") visit Marie.

Denmark (Danemark)

Denmark appears in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary in connection with the Danish royal family (linked to other European royals through marriage) and the broader network of Scandinavian connections within European high society. Denmark in the 1870s-1880s was a small but culturally significant kingdom recovering from the loss of Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia in 1864.

Denyson

Flower vendor at the charity sale in Square Masséna, selling flowers alongside other vendors like the Durand family.

Derby

Derwies

A person (likely wealthy) who hosts concerts in Nice that Marie is eager to attend.

Des Perrières

- Type: people - mentioned

Desbarolles

- Type: people - mentioned

Desforges

Real estate agent or property broker in Nice involved in the Bashkirtseff family's purchase of Villa Carlone in 1874.

Desire

Dessin

[Research needed]

Detaille

Édouard Detaille (1848–1912), the military painter, pupil of Meissonier; with Alphonse de Neuville he painted the Panorama de Rezonville (1883) and the Panorama de Champigny (1882) (en.wikipedia «Édouard Detaille»; napoleon.org «Le panorama de la bataille de Champigny»). Marie writes «Détaillé».

Détroit des Mouches

Specific area in Nice where certain society members congregate.

Detroyat

[Research needed]

Deux Pigeons

- Type: people - mentioned

Devaux

Chemistry teacher or tutor.

Diacre

- Type: people - mentioned

Diadia

Diana

Diaz de Soria

M. Diaz de Soria, a celebrated amateur singer and wine merchant of Bordeaux, a regular of the Riviera and Paris salons (Kernberger 2013, glossary: "Soria, Diaz de: amateur singer and wine merchant in Bordeaux"; "Diaz di Soria: singer traveling with Barnola"). Kernberger's translation of a later entry records that he was a practising Jew.

Dieppe

[Dieppe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe) is a coastal town in [Normandy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy), northern France, on the [English Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Channel). In the late 19th century it was France's oldest and most aristocratic [seaside resort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_resort), a mandatory summer destination for Parisian high society and international visitors. For Marie Bashkirtseff, Dieppe was the site of a three-week stay in August--September 1879, prescribed by her doctor as a [sea bathing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_bathing) cure for her respiratory ailments. It became a theatre of social performance, plein air painting, boredom, and her characteristic ambivalence about being anywhere other than Paris.

Dieu

Dieulafait

A Paris clothier: the Mon Journal indexes list «Dieulafait, magasin d'habillement» (t.3 p.240; t.4 p.12). Marie orders her riding clothes and outerwear there in 1874.

Dikanka

Dikanka is the Kotchoubey family estate in the Poltava region, ten kilometres from the Bashkirtseff estate at [Gavronzi](./GAVRONZI.md). In Russian culture the name belongs to literature: Pushkin's *Poltava* (1829) sets there the story of Mazeppa, Mariya Kochubey and the execution of her father, and Gogol's *Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka* (1831–32) made the village a byword for Ukrainian village life. For the Bashkirtseff circle it was the grandest house in the neighbourhood, and being received there was a mark of standing.

Dimitri Mitta

- Type: people - mentioned

Dimitri Rembelinsky

- Type: people - mentioned

Dina Babanina

Dina was the daughter of Marie's maternal uncle **Georges Babanine** ([#Georges](../family/GEORGES.md)) and his wife **Domenica Pavlovna Issaïevitch** (Kernberger, Glossary). According to Marie's preface, Georges married at twenty "une belle veuve de trente-six ans, mère de plusieurs enfants" (000.0008); one of the widow's daughters, Marie née Kandiba ("Mashenka"), became the wife of Uncle Stepa Babanine. Dina's full siblings were Lola ("La fille est mariée", 000.0035; she married Alexander Nemerovsky per Kernberger, and Marie notes the wedding on 13 September 1882, 096.0237) and a brother, Stepan ("Etienne"), "mort à seize ans" (000.0035). On 25 January 1874 Marie reads in a Russian newspaper that Stepan, fifteen and a student at the military academy, had stabbed himself three times with a dagger at his mother's house (1874-01-25, in Kernberger's translation); Dina was not told. By February 1876 he is spoken of as dead (053, 1876-02-01). Kernberger's notes connect the suicide with Georges having his marriage to Domenica annulled, which left the children illegitimate (Kernberger 2013, notes).

Dina Bedriaga

A young woman of Poltava society whom Marie calls "l'homme-femme". The Mon Journal t.9 index has "Bediagra (Mlle Dina)" (pp. 44, 70, 145); the diary text has both "Mlle Bedriaga" (065/1876-08-29) and "Mlle Bediagra" (066/1876-09-12).

Diogene

- Type: people - mentioned

Dis-moi Vénus

Song from Offenbach's "La Belle Hélène" that Marie performs.

Diseases & Diagnoses

**Retired.** This tag is retired in favour of [Health & Illness](HEALTH.md), which now covers named diseases and diagnoses. The 2026 tag audit no longer assigns it; existing tags are removed carnet by carnet, and the file is kept as a retired redirect so old links keep working (no tag points here as of 2026-10-03).

Dnieper (Dniepr / Дніпро)

The Dnieper (Ukrainian: Дніпро, Dnipro; Russian: Днепр, Dnepr) is one of the major rivers of Europe, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Marie mentions it during her visit to Kremontchougy in summer 1881.

Docteur Michel

A Paris physician who attends Marie's mother in 1878, during her grandfather's last illness and the scenes made by her uncle Georges: «Le Docteur Michel, celui qui venait soigner maman pendant la maladie de grand-papa et les horreurs de... l'autre» (087.0531, 23 February 1880). He is also the family's source of political and society gossip, above all about Paul de Cassagnac's marriage. The Mon Journal indexes list him as «Michel (médecin)» (t.11 pp.240, 268, 287), «Michel (docteur)» (t.12 pp.28, 61, 113) and «Michel (Docteur)» (t.13 p.191). No first name is given and he has not been identified further.

Document Humain

"Document Humain" (Human Document) is a literary concept that became particularly significant in late 19th century French literature, especially in naturalist and realist movements. The term refers to authentic, unfiltered human experiences and emotions documented in a way that reveals psychological and social truths.

Doenhoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Dolgorouky

The Dolgorouky (Dolgorukov) princely family of Russia. The diary names no individual member by first name:

Dolmatoff

Dom Fabrice

An invented monk's name that Marie signed to an anonymous letter of 21 January 1876, sent under cover to be passed on «au fichu Emile» d'Audiffret; the letter mocks Audiffret as the «vil coq» ridden by a departed Don Quixote. One of the masks of the Audiffret campaign (see MOINES_DE_CIMIEZ).

Domenica Pavlovna Babanine, née Issaïevitch (Mme Georges)

She married Georges when she was, per Marie's preface, thirty-six years old and already a widow with children; Georges was only twenty. The marriage occurred around 1853-1854, four or five years before Marie's birth in 1858. (Note: the Kernberger genealogy tree gives "Domenica Pavlovna ISSAÏEVITCH, née vers 1831" — the same birth-year band as Georges — which contradicts the preface's sixteen-year age gap; the tree scan is low-resolution and its year digits are not reliably legible.)

Domenico (Dominique) Antonelli, "le Sauvage"

A brother of Pietro Antonelli; in Marie's private zoo of Roman suitors he is "le Sauvage", next to Paolo "le Lion", Torlonia "le Tigre" and Pietro "le Moine".

Dominica Pavlovna

Dominique

The coachman or driver for Marie's family. Marie gives him orders regarding their carriage movements during outings.

Dominus

A steeplechase horse that Marie watches at Auteuil on the afternoon of the first Grand National de France (the future Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris), run on 25 May 1874 and won by the English mare Miss Hungerford (en.wikipedia «Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris»; tbheritage.com race chart).

Don Carlos

Carlos de Borbón, Duke of Madrid (1848-1909), the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne (Carlos VII for his partisans), in exile since the end of the Third Carlist War in February 1876 and living in Paris (English Wikipedia, «Carlos, Duke of Madrid»). Marie admires him as the handsomest and most "royal" man she has seen, and is repeatedly disappointed by his dullness. The Mon Journal indexes confirm the identification: t.9 «Carlos, Don : 246»; t.12 «Don Carlos de Bourbon : 165»; t.13 «Don Carlos (de Bourbon) : 37, 100».

Don Giovanni

- Type: people - mentioned

Don Lorenzo (Madrid dealer)

Don Lorenzo, a Madrid dealer in old Spanish fabrics whose shop Marie paints in October–November 1881: «Hier j'ai commencé une étude dans la boutique de l'illustre Lorenzo» (093.0258); she buys three hundred francs' worth of old embroideries and takes tender leave of «al senior Don Lorenzo» (093.0264, 20 October); she fears she has let herself be robbed by «maître Lorenzo» (093.0293), plans a picture from the study (093.0321), and returns on 2 November to redo the sketch (093.0326, 093.0330). Mon Journal t.14 index: «Lorenzo, Marchand de tissus espagnols».

Don Quichotte

Cervantes's novel, which Marie buys in Nice on 1874-10-09 (024.0274): «J'ai acheté "Les Femmes de la Bible", et les œuvres de Byron et de Shakespeare, et "Don Quichotte" que je n'ai pas encore lu.» She lists it with the other books bought in one round of the shops (with a subscription to the Morning Post). She says she has not yet read it; the diary does not record her reading it in this passage. Not a person.

Dona Estephana

- Type: people - mentioned

Dora

- Type: people - mentioned

Dori

A small pet dog (female: «la ressuscita», «la pauvre petite bête») of the Bashkirtseff household in 1874; Mon Journal t.4 index «Dori, chien, 178, 204». The other household dogs of the time are Sandwich and Bagatelle.

Doria

"Doria" in the diary is mainly the two sons of Prince Filippo Andrea V Doria Pamphilj (1813–1876), senator and acting mayor of Rome, who died in Rome on 19 March 1876 (en.wikipedia «Filippo Doria Pamphili»). Marie sees them first at Spa and Ostend in August–September 1874 and next in Nice, then daily in Rome in the winter of 1876, where she builds her romantic terror of the elder one. Wikipedia lists the sons as Giovanni Andrea and Alfonso; the diary's own names are «Gianetto/Giacometto» for the elder (the Mon Journal indexes «Doria (Giacometto)», «Doria (prince Gianetto)») and «Don Alphonse» for the younger (index: «Doria (Don Alphonse, prince) [Blanc]»); matching Gianetto to Giovanni Andrea is probable, not stated by the diary.

Doria Pamphilii

Dory

A female singer of the Italian opera company at the Nice Opéra in the seasons 1874-75 and 1875-76, in mezzo/contralto roles. Marie calls her "la bonne chanteuse Dory" (028.0113). First name not given.

Doubelt

[Research needed]

Doucet

«Doucet» in Marie's text is the Parisian dress-making house of **Jacques Doucet**, where she had her clothes made (1875-1883). The painter Lucien Doucet, whom she mentions in 1880 and 1883, is a different person with his own entry: [#Lucien Doucet](../artists/LUCIEN_DOUCET.md).

Douglas

An actress, Mme Douglas, whom Marie names only as a point of comparison: describing Mme Angel on 1874-10-19 (024.0362), she says the lady is a Russian of thirty-five with magnificent hair, and that to make her one would have to melt together «Mlle Collignon et Douglas, l'actrice dramatique de l'année dernière». The Mon Journal t.4 index has «Douglas (Mme), actrice, 180». She was therefore a dramatic actress seen in Nice during the previous (1873–74) season; no first name or company was found.

Dourassoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Dover

[Research needed]

Dr Anet

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Blanche

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Fauvel

Dr Ivanoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Lannelongue

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Lezask

Dr Lezask (Marie also writes Lezaak), the physician called in when her mother falls ill in Paris in summer 1874. Mon Journal indexes: «Lezask (M.), médecin» (t.3 p.259), «Lezaak (M.), médecin» (t.4 p.15).

Dr Michel

Dr Pierre-Carl Potain

Pierre Carl Édouard Potain (born in Paris, 19 July 1825; died in Paris, 5 January 1901; buried in Montparnasse) was the leading Parisian clinician of Marie's day in diseases of the heart and lungs. The page's old title "Pierre-Charles" is a variant: his birth certificate reads "Carle", and the diary's own footnotes give "Carl". He took his doctorate in 1853, became chef de clinique at the Charité under Bouillaud in 1858, médecin des hôpitaux in 1861 (Saint-Antoine, Necker), professor of medical pathology and then of clinical medicine from 1875, and worked at the Charité from 1882 to 1900. He was a member of the Académie de médecine and the Académie des sciences. In 1889, with Étienne-Jules Marey, he improved the blood-pressure instrument of von Basch by replacing the water with air. (Fr. Wikipedia, "Pierre Potain", https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Potain.)

Dr Tchernichoff

A Russian physician of the Nice colony in spring 1876, in the circle of Nina Sapogenikoff. He is not the M. Tchernichoff of 1874 ([Tchernichoff](../mentioned/TCHERNICHOFF.md)); Marie herself separates them: «M. Tchernichoff ... pas le docteur Tchernichoff enfin» (024.0122). Mon Journal t.7 index: «Tchernichoff (médecin) : 323, 343». His first name is not given.

Dr Thilenius

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Tholozan

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr Tomachewsky

- Type: people - mentioned

Dr. Fauvel

Dr. Fauvel was a Parisian physician who treated Marie in October 1880 for respiratory problems. He prescribed iodine and a blister (vésicatoire) - treatments Marie found horrifying, saying she would rather break an arm than endure a mustard plaster.

Dr. Hactius (Docteur Hactius)

Dr. Hactius (also spelled "Haccius" in some historical records) was the director of a famous boarding school (pensionnat) in Geneva, Switzerland, during the 1870s. The school served international students, particularly from Russian noble families.

Dr. Jacques-Joseph Grancher

Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843-1907) was a prominent French physician, later renowned as a pediatrician and tuberculosis specialist, and one of the "five musketeers" of Louis Pasteur's circle at the Institut Pasteur. He was a pioneer in isolation and antiseptic protocols for preventing childhood tuberculosis, and later played a key role in defending Pasteur's rabies vaccine treatment (1887 Congress).

Dr. Rehberg

Doctor in Nice chosen by Khalkionoff's mother to replace Dr. Walitsky. Marie implies he provided less care than Walitsky.

Dreams

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie records or interprets a night dream: Hamilton or Cassagnac in her sleep, the dead returning, a dream read as an omen. She notes dreams quickly and often reads them as signs, so this tag sits close to [Omens & Superstition](SUPERSTITION.md) but is judged separately.

Drillat

Person of low social standing whom Marie despises. Used as comparison for Georges's peasant friend.

Drochki

A drochki (also droshky, дрожки) is a light, low, open Russian carriage on four wheels, originally little more than a bench mounted on a plank between two axles. Marie spells it "drochki" in the French manner. The vehicle is distinctively Russian and appears in the diary only during Marie's visits to Russia.

Drouin

Mlle Drouin, a member of the women's-rights society Le Droit des femmes, Hubertine Auclert's group (Mon Journal t.14 index: «Drouin (Mlle), société des droits de la femme: 189»). On 1881-08-18 (092.0422) Marie attends the meeting at which fourteen members vote «l'expulsion du commandant d'Epailly et de la demoiselle Drouin qui ont calomnié et embêté Hubertine». The dispute arose over an article by Epailly on the women's demonstration of the 14th (July) and a riposte by Lévrier in *La Citoyenne*; see [#Epailly](EPAILLY.md) and [#Hubertine Auclert](HUBERTINE_AUCLERT.md). Hubertine Auclert founded *La Citoyenne* in 1881 and the society in 1876 (en.wikipedia «Hubertine Auclert»). No first name for Mlle Drouin was found.

du Sautoy

Dubail

[Research needed]

Dubel

M. Dubel, architect in Paris, who works for both Rodolphe Julian and Marie (Mon Journal indexes t.14 «Dubel (M.), architecte: 51, 197»; t.15 p.20).

Dubois

- Type: people - mentioned

duc

Duc Carmignano

Duc d Edimbourg

Duc de Carmignano

Duc de Feltre

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc de Fernan Nunez

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc de Hamilton

Duc de la Conquista

The duc de la Conquista, a Spanish noble remembered from Nice. Mon Journal indexes: «Conquista (duc de la), 259» (t.2, 1873), «Conquista (duc de), 117» (t.3, 1874), «Conquista (duc de), 204» (t.14, 1881).

Duc de La Rochefoucauld Bisaccia

- Type: people - mentioned

duc de Leuchtenberg

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc de Melito

Duc de Monteleone

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc de Mouchy (Antoine de Noailles)

Antoine (Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie) de Noailles (19 April 1841 - 2 February 1909), duc de Mouchy from 1854 and prince de Poix, son of Charles-Philippe-Henri de Noailles; he married Anna Murat on 18 December 1865 (English Wikipedia, «Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles»; thepeerage.com). Mon Journal t.3 index: «Mouchy (duc de), 34, 70, 101, 119, 121, 178». His wife: [Duchesse de Mouchy](DUCHESSE_DE_MOUCHY.md).

duc de Padoue

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc de Pomar

When Marie writes "Pomar" in Nice in the spring of 1882 she means the Duke de Pomar, as she explains herself: "Pomar, c'est le duc de Pomar, espagnol des colonies après lequel toutes les jeunes filles courent parce qu'il a 600 mille francs de rente. Sa mère s'est remariée avec lord Caithness" (094.0325). He is the son of [Lady Caithness](LADY_CAITHNESS.md) (Maria de Mariategui, 1830–1895) by her first husband, the Spanish general Count de Medina Pomar (d. 1868), who bore the name of the title in full: Manuel Maria de Medina Pomar y Mariategui, known as Emmanuel, the Duke de Medina Pomar or de Pomar.

Duc de Rivoli

[Research needed]

Duc de San Cesario

The duc de San Cesario of Naples, «président du Cercle» (069.0457, 20 March 1877: the Società Filarmonica, see 070.0911), father of the young marquis di Campomarino ([Campomarino](CAMPOMARINO.md)): Marie is introduced to «le marquis di Campomarino, fils du duc de Sanceso» (069.0527). He greets her mother at the door of the Fabbricatore ball (069.0521) and teases Marie, «Vous n'êtes pas blanche aujourd'hui, mais dorée sur tranches» (069.0530). In May 1877 a letter tells Marie of his death, «Donc le duc de San Cesario est mort, vive le duc de San Cesario. Il n'y a plus Campomarino» (071.0518, 071.0520): the son inherits the title. On 10 June: «Nasimoff écrit que San Cesario s'est suicidé à la suite de faux papiers dont il est l'auteur» (071.0622).

Duc de San Martino

«Le duc de San Martino jouait de la contrebasse» (069.0526, 069/1877-03-25): a Neapolitan nobleman playing in the orchestra of the Società Filarmonica's concert of sacred music on 25 March 1877, which Marie attended. The Mon Journal t.10 index has «San Martino (duc de), 46».

Duc de Tarente

[Research needed]

Duc Decazes

- Type: people - mentioned

Duc et Duchesse de Mouchy

Duchess de Mouchy

Duchess of Hamilton

Duchess of Westminster

- Type: people - aristocracy

Duchesse d Abrantes

[Research needed]

Duchesse de Fitz-James (Marguerite de Marmier)

The "duchesse de Fitz-James douairière" of the diary is, on the evidence, **Marguerite Claire Stéphanie de Marmier** (30 September 1807 – 15 October 1888), widow of Jacques Marie Emmanuel de Fitz-James, 7th duc de Fitz-James (1803–1846), whom she had married in 1826. She was the daughter of Philippe-Gabriel, 1st duc de Marmier. The Fitz-James were a legitimist family descended from James FitzJames, Duke of Berwick, the natural son of James II of England; the title was a French peerage. (Wikipedia fr, "Édouard de Fitz-James (1776-1838)" for the 1807–1888 dates; Utoronto Jacobite essay, "The Family of the Ducs de Fitz-James", for the marriage and children. A society chronicle of 1889 says she died "this week" in England at the age of eighty-five, which would put her death in 1889; the two sources disagree by a year and the genealogies are preferred here.)

Duchesse de Montmorency

A lady «en blanc, le cou couvert de perles extraordinaires, qu'on disait la duchesse de Montmorency», seen once at a Paris charity sale on 1874-06-04 (020.0119). Marie lists the best toilettes of the fête («une fête comme la vente du square Masséna de Nice»; the tombola tickets were sold by «chevaliers du pince-nez»): the duchesse de Mouchy, a lady resembling her, this «dame en blanc», and the princesse Souvoroff. Mon Journal t.3 index: «Montmorency (duchesse de), 217».

Duchesse de Mouchy (Anna Murat)

Anna Murat (1841-1924), daughter of Prince Lucien Murat and great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte; on 18 December 1865 she married Antoine (Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie) de Noailles, 7th duc de Mouchy (1841-1909) (English Wikipedia, «Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles»; thepeerage.com). Their children were François (1866-1900) and Sabine (1868-1881) (same sources). The Mon Journal indexes name her «Mouchy (duchesse de. née princesse Anna Murat)» (t.13) and «Mouchy (Mme Anna, duchesse de)» (t.14); the diary's «duchesse de Mouchy», «Mme de Mouchy» and «la Mouchy» are all she. Her husband: [Duc de Mouchy](DUC_DE_MOUCHY.md).

Duchesse de Sarno

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Duchesse de Valence

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Duchod

Duchod was a Parisian stationery maker who created custom letterhead with drawings, mottos, and decorative elements for wealthy clients in the 1870s-1880s.

Dufour

A social acquaintance encountered at the Grand Prix at Longchamp on 30 May 1880, listed among fashionable society: "Pernety, Nervo [...] L. Chevreau, prince de Monaco, Dufour, de Lareintie etc." The Mon Journal t.13 index has «Dufour (M.): 263» (the page of the entry of 30 May 1880). First name, profession and any link to the other names of the list were not found.

Dugue

[Research needed]

Dugue de la Fauconnerie

Duke of Bensa

Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), English courtier and favorite of King James I and Charles I.

Duke of Edinburgh

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Duke of Hamilton

The Duke of Hamilton mentioned in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary is likely William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895). He was a Scottish nobleman who held multiple titles including:

Duke of Manchester

Father of Lord Mandeville, related to Duke of Hamilton through marriage.

Duke of Vallombrosa

Italian nobleman with a magnificent villa in Nice that Marie visits on April 4, 1875. His wealth and beautiful property make Marie envious and reinforce her desire for luxury and high social status.

Dumas

Dumas Fils

Dumas Pere

Dupuis

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Durand

The Durand family of Nice: a Spanish family with a French surname. The Mon Journal t.3 index lists «Durand (Mlle Clémentine), Espagnole» and «Durand (Mlle Lucie), Espagnole»; Marie's own gibe «Carmen de Ballen de Guzman de Durand» (041.0016) and the «monsieur espagnol, un ami de la famille» (041.0069) point the same way, and 041.0150 puts them in «l'essaim espagnol, les Gonzalès, les Durand». The family consists of:

Durand Family

Durocher

Nina Durocher, French actress, mistress of Marie's father Constantin Bashkirtseff (1833–1883) from 1873 until at least the Poltava autumn of 1876. Marie writes «la Durocher» with the contemptuous article. The Mon Journal t.2 index reads «Durocher (Mlle Nina), actrice, maîtresse de Constantin Pavlovitch Bashkirtseff» (p.199) and the t.9 index «Durocher (Mme), maîtresse de Constantin Bashkirtseff». No birth date beyond Marie's own report of her age was found.

Duruy

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Dusautoy (pianist)

This entry is for **Dusautoy the pianist** (carnets 091-102, 1881-1883): a young Conservatoire-trained pianist, friend of Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch and one of Marie's circle in her last years. The Paris tailor Dusautoy of May-June 1874 is a different person: [#Dusautoy (tailor)](DUSAUTOY_TAILLEUR.md).

Dusautoy (tailor, 1874)

The Paris tailor who made Marie's riding habit in May-June 1874. The Bashkirtseffs, in Paris, order an «amazone» from Dusautoy (019.0314, 22 May 1874). The result is a failure: on 12 June Marie writes that the habit «est impossible», that «c'est une canaille que ce Dusautoy», and that, since the habit is still at his place and he wants his money, four «policemen» came and the family paid «trois cents francs» to be rid of them, [#Walitsky](../recurring/WALITSKY.md) undertaking to see to the rest (020.0228). The next day her mother tells the story to another tailor, «Alfred», who is to make her a new one (020.0238). On 20 June her mother asks M. de Villemessant of *Le Figaro* to put «mon Dusautoy» in his paper (020.0367). On 22 June Dusautoy calls but has neither remade nor altered the habit, «d'ailleurs c'eût été miracle, il était depuis deux semaines payé» (020.0376).

Duval

Duval, the Paris furniture dealer and decorator (Mon Journal indexes «Duval, magasin de meubles»: t.3 pp.236, 239; t.4 pp.147–166, 255, 279–282; t.5 pp.145–146; t.6 pp.179–189) from whom the Bashkirtseffs order the furnishings of their Nice villa in 1874. Not to be confused with «Duval (Mathias), professeur d'anatomie» (t.11 pp.59, 66). No first name found.

Duvernoy