Kirsh

Kirsh (Kirch)

M. Kirch (Marie's other spelling; Mon Journal t.3 index «Kirch (M.)», pp. 250-256, 258), a Belgian at Spa in summer 1874, a useful man at the Casino «pour toutes les choses» (020.0445): bald, stout, forty to forty-five, «ressemble à un propriétaire russe, regardé ici comme un monsieur de premier ordre, antipathique» (020.0475). Everyone calls him «la fleur des cavaliers belges»; Marie finds him «atroce», a «paysan» (020.0467), resents his admiration (020.0454) and his gossip about a man's «réputation» (020.0508). He plays billiards with her party (020.0444), is at Gambart's reception on 1 July (020.0484-0486) and comes with Gambart's suite on later days (021.0442, 021.0547). A letter from Kirsh to Marie in August tells of a cotillon organised by Haristoff and de Biesme (023.0238); in Nice later they speak of Spa, Gericke, Kirsh and the count (023.0113).