Neufarge

Overview

The chevalier de Neufarge, a handsome, well-dressed man with a bad reputation at Spa in July 1874 (Mon Journal t.3 index: «Neufarge (M. de), 257-258, 260»; t.4 «Neufarge (M. de), 5–7, 9, 13, 15, 60, 79»). Marie records the gossip that he is «fils bâtard d'un prince russe qui lui légua une grande fortune, que cette beauté gaspilla à moitié» (020.0506).

Relevance to Marie

Stub replaced. 'Fils bâtard d'un prince russe' is hearsay as reported by Marie. CHEVALIER_DE_NEUFARGE (merged here; same man, Mon Journal t.3/t.4).

References in Diary

Introduced by Basilévitch on 2 July 1874 («un monsieur fadement beau, et à l'air méphistophélès», 020.0506), he jokes lightly that Spa is «la piste d'entraînement de votre mari» (020.0507); everyone speaks badly of him but nobody says why (020.0508). Marie finds him «un homme du monde, parfaitement mis, ressemblant à une gravure de mode… mais il dit trop» (021.0010); he and the usurer Body slander each other (021.0004, 021.0009). On 8 July he walks with Basilévitch (021.0055–021.0057). By 26 July he has been «banni de la société» and pretends to see nobody, but greets Marie (022.0121).