Violette

Overview

Not a separate person: «Violette» is the name Marie signed in her letters to Alexandre de Larderel in Naples in March–April 1877, and the name she uses for herself in them, in the third person. Larderel signed his side «Violet» («Il signe Violet et moi Violette», 072.0538); «Violet» is Larderel and is tagged to LARDEREL, not here. The name plays on the violets she sent and wore that season (the bouquet of violets sent to Larderel with an anonymous card, 068.1307, 11 February 1877; «Je mets quelques violettes dans la lettre», 16 March 1877).

References in Diary

• 1877-03-16: a letter to Larderel signed «> Violette.» (069.0394)
• 1877-03-17: «> Violette chagrinée, inappréciée et vexée» (069.0424)
• 1877-03-21: «> Violette n'a pas le pardon aussi facile que vous avez l'air de penser» (069.0470)
• 1877-04-01: the letter «dans laquelle je ne cachais pas que c'est Violette» (069.0670); her admirers at the Opéra are «six chevaliers de la Violette» (069.0677); in a letter, «il se passe chez Violette quelque chose de nouveau. Violette le reconnaît» (069.0698)
• 1877-04-10: Larderel's P.P.C. card, «ces trois lettres tracées comme les lettres de Violette» (070.0491)
• 1877-07-14: in the daydream of a «seconde vie», she and Alexandre telegraph each other: «Il signe Violet et moi Violette» (072.0538)

Not this entry

• «je suis Violette» on 3 March 1878 (078.0349) is Violetta of La Traviata, whose last act the carnival noise recalls, not the Naples name.
• «Violette Valery» (059.0067) is the heroine of La Traviata.
• Violets as flowers (the bouquets, the violets Dina holds out at 069.0670, the Bonapartist violets of 15 August 1877) do not by themselves get this tag.

Owner ruling 2026-10-22 (B-75): Marie's code and mask names are tagged to the mask-name file, never to MARIE.