Docteur Michel

Who he is

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.

In the diary

• 1878-05-10 (080.0075): when Marie tells him of Cassagnac's coming marriage he repeats what is said of it; 06-05 (080.0420): asked, like Fio, to get her tickets for Versailles through Mme de Lesseps; 06-16 (080.0632): «le docteur Michel qui disait que Cassagnac ne peut se marier…».
• 1878-07-03 (081.0236): «Le Dr. Michel en raconte !»; 07-24 (081.0539): he tells her mother that «L'Evènement» will print something about Cassagnac's wife.
• 1878-09-05 (082.0301): «Michel vient de me consoler en répétant des horreurs du mariage de Cassagnac» (t.12 index p.113, «Michel (docteur)»).
• 1880-02-23 (087.0531): he has repeated gossip about the family to Mme Alexandre Dumas.

Not to be confused with

Prince Michel ("Michka") Eristoff, Michka Eristoff, whose «Michel» tags are on the file MICHEL.