M. Leclerc

Research Status: Basic Diary Coverage: 1873-11-15 to 1876-04-06

Overview

Marie's teacher of chemistry and physics at Nice, 1873-1875. The Mon Journal t.7 index has «Leclerc (M.), professeur de chimie-physique : 221». His first lesson is on 15 November 1873: «J'ai ma première leçon avec M. Leclerc, chimiste» (012.0220). He is one of the home tutors (with Brunet, her tutor in literature; see Teachers) who make up her studies; she calls him in her dream «ce petit vieux bonhomme de Leclerc» (032.0391). He comes at fixed hours, sometimes at eight in the morning (024.0351, 028.0159).

In the diary

• 1874-01-28: «M. Leclerc dit que la lumière bleue fait pousser les plantes», so she buys blue curtains (016.0020). 1874-02-15: she dismisses «Brunet et Leclerc» early to go to a concert (016.0269).
• 1874-03-14: «Leclerc me fait rire, il aime tant manger et pendant la leçon il lui arrive toujours de me parler de quelque plat» (017.0306).
• 1874-10-16, 11-06: «Leclerc était venu, ses heures sont fixées»; «Je devais rentrer pour Leclerc» (024.0351, 025.0144). 1874-12-26: «Avec Leclerc, j'ai parlé de l'installation de ma chimie et physique» (028.0037). 1875-01-03, 01-29, 02-12: lessons at eight; he «me bourre de physique» (028.0159, 029.0118, 029.0281).
• 1875-05-10: with him she installs her laboratory «dans l'ex-cuisine du pavillon» (032.0389); that night she dreams he undressed during the lesson (032.0390-0381). 1875-06-14: a chemistry lesson preparing sulphurous acid to bleach flowers and nitric oxide (034.0262).
• 1875-07-16: Brunet says that someone «brillait par son absence au lycée» and Leclerc covers his face with his hands; Marie adds that she deserves a beating for not preparing the baccalauréat (037.0162). 1875-07-21: with Maurice Godard she writes an anonymous letter asking him to build a balloon on Mont Boron (037.0333).
• 1876-04-06, Rome: remembering that «Leclerc m'avait parlé un jour du prussiate jaune» when thinking of poison (056.0461).

References in Diary

012.0220; 016.0020, 0269; 017.0306; 024.0351; 025.0144; 028.0037, 0159; 029.0118, 0281; 032.0389-0381; 034.0262; 037.0162, 0333; 056.0461 (1873-11 to 1876-04). Note: 012.0220 is tagged to the stub M_LECLERC (see the retarget row reported).