Notes
Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), the most celebrated French baritone of the day, singing in Donizetti’s La Favorite (1840). Kernberger (2013) likewise identifies him as Jean-Baptiste Faure. ↩
« Robert Milton » was the pen name of the racing writer Albert de Saint-Albin (1843-1901). Le Sport, « journal des gens du monde », was a Paris paper of racing and society news. ↩
« Le monde très aimable » (the « very amiable world ») was a euphemism for the demi-monde of kept women; a chou à la crème is a cream puff. ↩
François Malausséna, a Nice lawyer and the city’s first mayor after its annexation to France in 1860 (in office 1861-1870). ↩
Hippolyte de Villemessant (1810-1879), founder and director of Le Figaro, who spent his winters on the Riviera. ↩