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P Orell

P. Orell's articles in La Citoyenne (1881)

In 1881 Marie wrote art criticism for Hubertine Auclert's feminist paper [La Citoyenne](./LA_CITOYENNE.md) under the pseudonym **P. Orell** ("Pauline Daria Orell", Wikipedia spells it Orrel). The best-known piece is her review of the **Salon of 1881**, which she announces as "mon Salon dans la Citoyenne" on 14 May 1881. The articles themselves have not been located for this project; what is known is what the diary says about them.

Pacha (Paul Gorpintchenko)

"Pacha" is the Russian pet name (diminutive of Pavel/Paul) of Paul Gorpintchenko, a young man of the Poltava/Kharkov circle of Marie's father's family. Marie meets him on arrival in Russia in August 1876 ("Paul Gorpintchenko", 065/1876-08-20: "solid, serious Russian type", a decade-old acquaintance) and, with Michel Eristoff, he is her devoted, silent, hand-kissing admirer through the stay at Gavronzi; his mother is Mme Gorpintchenko (Elena Pavlovna), see [#Mme Gorpintchenko](MME_GORPINTCHENKO.md). Marie calls him "ce gros paysan aux grands sentiments" (1878) and, in 1881, "le gros Pacha, mon ancien amoureux". His sister is married to Sperandio ([#Sperandio](SPERANDIO.md)). In the diary he is always "Pacha" (never "Paul", which is Marie's brother): keep the name Pacha in translation.

Pacha Gorpintchenko

Paganini

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), Italian violin virtuoso and composer (Mon Journal t.15 p.204, t.16 p.78: «Paganini (Niccolo), violoniste»; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolò_Paganini).

Paget

- Type: people - mentioned

Pailleron

- Type: people - mentioned

Palais Bourbon

The Palais-Bourbon, quai d'Orsay, Paris: seat of the Corps législatif under the Second Empire (1852–70) and of the Chamber of Deputies from 1879. Marie calls it by either name.

Palais d Hooghworst

- Type: people - mentioned

Palais de Castille

The Palais de Castille, on the Avenue Kléber in [Paris](../cities/PARIS.md), was the residence in exile of Queen Isabel II of Spain, whom Marie calls simply [la Reine](../../people/royalty/QUEEN_ISABELLA_II.md). Formerly the Hôtel Basilewski, it housed the exiled Spanish Bourbon court after 1868 and served as a royalist and Bonapartist salon; the building is today the Peninsula Paris hotel.

Palais de l Industrie

[Research needed]

Palais de l'Industrie

The Palais de l'Industrie (Palace of Industry) was a large exhibition hall on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, built for the 1855 Universal Exhibition. During Marie Bashkirtseff's time, it was best known as the venue for the annual Paris Salon, the most important art exhibition in France. For Marie, as an aspiring and then exhibiting artist, the Palais de l'Industrie was the stage on which her artistic ambitions would be judged.

Palais-Royal

A historic palace and theater complex in central Paris (1st arrondissement). By the 1880s, the Palais-Royal included gardens, arcades with shops and cafés, and the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, known for light comedies and vaudevilles.

Palajka

A person in the Bashkirtseff household who announces visitors. On May 3, 1873, Palajka interrupts Marie to tell her that "Egor Stepanovitch has arrived."

Palazzo

- Type: people - mentioned

Palazzo Larderel (Florence)

The Larderel family palace at via de' Tornabuoni 19, Florence, formerly Palazzo Giacomini, designed by Giovanni Antonio Dosio and completed in 1580; the Larderel family bought it in 1839 (en.wikipedia «Palazzo Larderel»; RIBApix record «Palazzo Larderel, also known as Palazzo Giacomini»). In 1877 it is the home of Count Alexandre de Larderel's mother.

Palazzo Reale di Capodimonte (Naples)

Capodimonte is the Bourbon royal palace, with its large wooded park, on the hill above Naples. Per Wikipedia, «Museo di Capodimonte», it was begun in 1738 for Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, to house the Farnese art collection and as a hunting lodge; after 1860 it passed to the House of Savoy and is today a museum. The porcelain made in the royal factory there (Capodimonte ware) is a separate matter; see below.

Palumbo

- Type: people - mentioned

Pandola

A member of the Roman Caccia-Club set of 1876, always seen with Zucchini, Cesaro and Belmonte in the club's stage box (*barcaccia*). Marie stresses his size and calls him a deputy: «Pandola, l'immense député» (055/1876-03-05); the Mon Journal t.7 index has «Pandola (M.), député». Not further identified.

Pandolfini

- Type: people - mentioned

Pandolini

Pandolini, an Italian singer whom Marie hears in *Guillaume Tell* in October 1881. The footnote at 093.0211 gives «probably the Italian baritone Francesco Pandolfini (1836–1916)» (Troubetzkoy archive, «Portrait of Francesco Pandolfini»), spelling the name differently from Marie.

Panorama

A panorama (a circular painted view building) near the Champs-Élysées in Paris, visited by Marie in June 1874. Not a person.

Pantheon

The Pantheon in Rome, the domed Roman temple consecrated as the church of Santa Maria ad Martyres, burial place of King Victor Emmanuel II (1878). Marie visits it with the sights of Rome: «nous allons visiter le Panthéon, l'église Santa Maria Maggiore…» (052.0342, 21 January 1876); in May 1876 ma tante goes to see it while Marie waits for Pietro Antonelli (060.0595). In January 1878 she copies the inscription placed there after the King's death: «Cette seule phrase écrite sur le Panthéon vous peint la nation italienne» (077.0251).

Panurge

- Type: people - mentioned

Paole

Paole, a London couture house where Marie orders a riding habit (*amazone*) in September 1874 (Mon Journal t.4 index: «Paole, maison de couture, 136–138, 141»).

Papa (Constantin Bashkirtseff)

> **Disambiguation -- who is "papa"?** In the Nice household (1873--1877) Marie's bare "papa" is almost always her **maternal grandfather, Stepan Babanine** -- see [#Grand_papa](./GRAND_PAPA.md). Her father Constantin is "mon père", "mon (cher / auguste / illustre / honorable) père" or "mon pater". Marie calls him "Papa" only when she is with him: his Nice visit of Nov 1873 (013.0076, 013.0083, 013.0099), Poltava and Gavronzi in Jul--Oct 1876 (carnets 064--066), and Paris in Nov 1876 (067.1054). This entry is for Constantin only. Tag the grandfather's "papa" as #Grand_papa, not #Papa. Other "papas" of 1875--76: old M. d'Audiffret (049.0305, 050.0122--0502), operetta refrains, other people's fathers. The per-occurrence tables are in `.claude/reports/papa-referent-2026-09-26.md`.

Paparigopoulos

Michel (Mikhaïl Petrovitch) Paparigopoulos, a young Greek diplomat whom Marie knows as «le Grec» at Spa in July–August 1874 and meets again in Rome as Greek chargé d'affaires in 1876–77. Mon Journal indexes: «Paparigopoulos (M.), Grec» (t.5), «Paparigopulos (Michel), grec, chargé d'affaires» (t.7 pp.19–20, 22, 76…; t.8 pp.47–48; t.9 pp.243, 275, 294); his mother, Mme Paparigopoulos, is with him at Spa (t.4 pp.41, 83). Marie's own comic doggerel gives his career: «Embrassant la carrière diplomatique… Brun, fort beau garçon, comme son aïeul Agamemnon» (021.0348–021.0351). Outside sources agree on a Michael Paparrigopoulos, born in Athens about 1840, Greek chargé d'affaires in Rome from 1875 to 1880 and later minister at Bucharest and St Petersburg, died 1920 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Greece_to_Russia; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Greece_to_Italy), though the dates differ between sources.

parc Monceau

- Type: people - mentioned

Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. For Marie Bashkirtseff, Paris was the supreme city -- the center of artistic training, social ambition, and intellectual life in nineteenth-century Europe. She first visited as a child, returned repeatedly through the 1870s, and settled there permanently from 1877 until her death in 1884. More than any other place, Paris shaped her identity as an artist and defined the stage on which she sought fame.

Paris Fashion

Paris in the 1870s

Paris Mythology

Parody of Mignon's romance and the acrostic EMILE (1874)

Two small pieces of light verse that Marie wrote at Nice in the week before Christmas 1874. One is an **acrostic on the name EMILE** (23 December 1874); the other is a **rewriting of Mignon's romance "Connais-tu le pays"** so that it describes England and the Duke of Hamilton's household (25 December 1874). They are grouped here because both are tied to the winter of 1874-75.

Parthenon

[Research needed]

Pas mèche

*Pas mèche* (« Nothing Doing ») is a full-length figure of a ragged boy by [Jules Bastien-Lepage](../../people/recurring/BASTIEN_LEPAGE.md), dated 1881-82, oil on canvas, 133.4 × 89.6 cm, in the **National Galleries of Scotland**, Edinburgh (NG 1133; purchased 1913). The title shortens the slang phrase *il n'y a pas mèche* -- « nothing doing », « no way ». The Scottish gallery reads the whip and horn as the equipment of a barge boy who led the towing horses and signalled the barge's arrival to the lock-keeper; it records that the picture was painted for the London dealers Arthur Tooth & Sons and was included in the artist's memorial exhibition in Paris in 1885. (Source: National Galleries of Scotland, catalogue entry for NG 1133 -- via web search summary.)

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

A painter whom Marie weighs among the Salon names of 1883. The diary gives only the surname "Dagnan"; the identification with the painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) is settled by the owner's ruling of 2026-10-03.

Pascalis (family)

A Parisian family who hosted a costume ball attended by Marie on 3 May 1880 — "Bal costumé chez les Pascalis plus joli que leurs soirées grâce aux costumes, on s'écrase." (Costume ball at the Pascalis' — prettier than their usual soirees thanks to the costumes; the crowd is crushing.) The Pascalis family evidently hosted regular soirees in Parisian society. No further biographical details available from diary context.

Pascarola

- Type: people - mentioned

Pasqua

"Mme Pasqua", the prima donna of the opera in Nice in the 1875–76 season. Mon Journal t.6 index: «Pasqua, cantatrice, 169-172, 201, 207, 216, 254, 291».

Passage Marbeuf

A passage in the Marbeuf quarter of Paris (8th arrondissement, near the avenue Marbeuf — see [#Avenue_Marbeuf](AVENUE_MARBEUF.md)), where the parents of Marie's former governess Mlle Collignon kept a small furnished hotel.

Passy

- Type: places - neighborhoods

Patinage

[Research needed]

Patlingen

The baronne de Patlingen of the Austrian embassy in Paris (Mon Journal t.14 index: «Patlingen (baronne de) : 278»).

Patti

Patton Family

The household of Oscar Patton, Russian consul at Nice (Mon Journal t.2 and t.6 indexes: «Patton (Oscar), consul de Russie»), a leading figure of the Russian colony and, to Marie, its chief gossip. His wife is «Patton (Mme), née Savelieff» (t.1, t.2, t.6 indexes), the daughter of the dying Mme Savelieff in spring 1873. The family is Russian-colony Nice, not American. The family includes:

Paul Acard

Paul Antonelli

- Type: people - mentioned

Paul Bashkirtseff

Paul (Pavel Konstantinovich) Bashkirtsev, in French usage Paul Bashkirtseff (1859--1899), was Marie's younger brother. Both dates come from Kernberger (2013, Appendix I, Glossary: "Bashkirtseff, Paul: Marie's brother (1859-1899)"); no second source for either was found. Marie's own remark that he was "usé autant qu'on peut l'être à quatorze ans" in March 1874 (017.0466) fits a birth in 1859 or early 1860. He was born at Gavronzi near Poltava, the son of [#Papa](PAPA.md) (Constantin Bashkirtseff, 1833--1883) and [#Maman](MAMAN.md) (Maria Stepanovna Babanina, 1833--1920), and the grandson of General Paul Grigorievitch Bashkirtseff ([#Paul_Grigorievitch_Bashkirtseff](PAUL_GRIGORIEVITCH_BASHKIRTSEFF.md)). In 1880 he married Alexandrine Patchenko ("Nini", [#Nini](../mentioned/NINI.md)); they had at least two children (below).

Paul Bashkirtseff

Paul de Cassagnac

[Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Adolphe_Marie_Prosper_Granier_de_Cassagnac) (2 December 1842, Paris -- 4 November 1904, Saint-Viatre) was a French journalist, politician, and celebrated duelist. Editor of the Bonapartist newspaper *Le Pays* and founder of *L'Autorite*, he was one of the most combative and flamboyant figures of the early Third Republic. Marie was infatuated with him from 1876 to approximately 1880, making him one of the major romantic obsessions of her diary with approximately 280 tagged references across carnets 063--105.

Paul et Virginie

*Paul et Virginie* (1788) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre that tells the tragic love story of two young people raised together on the island of Mauritius. The story became one of the most popular French novels of the 18th and 19th centuries, known for its simple yet deeply moving narrative.

Paul et Virginie (Victor Massé)

*Paul et Virginie* is an opera in three acts and six tableaux by Victor Massé (1822-1884) to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's novel of 1788. IMSLP gives the first performance as 15 November 1876 at the Opéra National Lyrique, Paris; the BnF catalogue records the creation at the Théâtre Lyrique de la Gaîté on the same date (not the Opéra-Comique, as some of the diary footnotes say). Victor Capoul created Paul; the score is dedicated to him. It was revived at Covent Garden in 1878 (web sources: IMSLP; BnF; Wikipedia, "Victor Massé").

Paul frere

Paul Grigorievitch Bashkirtseff

Marie's paternal grandfather. Russian general who served in the Crimean War. Father of Constantin Bashkirtseff (Marie's father) and four daughters.

Paul I

Paul I (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his assassination in 1801, son of Catherine II, who kept him from power during her reign (footnote 064.0404.2).

Paul Le Roux

- Type: people - mentioned

Paul Mantz

Paul Mantz (1821–1895), French art critic and historian, art critic of *Le Temps* and director of the Beaux-Arts in 1882 (en.wikipedia «Paul Mantz»). Marie calls him «ce grand critique».

Paul Poire

- Type: people - mentioned

Paul Veronese

Paolo Veronese (Paul Véronèse, 1528–1588), Venetian painter of the Renaissance, famed for his colour and his huge banquet scenes; his *Apotheosis of Venice* (1585) is on the ceiling of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge's Palace, Venice (RSR at 028.0180; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese).

Paul Yssayevitch

Paul Issaïevitch (Yssayevitch), nephew of Domenica ([Domenica](../mentioned/DOMENICA.md)), the former wife of Marie's uncle Georges Babanine and mother of Dina, son of her brother. Mon Journal t.7 index: «Issaïevitch (Paul), neveu de Domenica Issaïevitch, 223–228…»; his sister is also called Dina (064.0617). A student at Kharkov in the late 1860s, he was in 1876 twenty-seven and «chargé des commissions particulières» of the chancellery of the governor-general of Vilna (056.0485), then in the suite of Governor-General Albedinsky (064.0413).

Pauline

Pauline, a Nice *cocotte* (Mon Journal t.2 index: «Pauline, demi-mondaine, 133, 184, 191»), kept in autumn 1873 by an Englishman and the model of the rich courtesan whom Marie says she does not wish to resemble.

Pauline Orell

A pseudonym adopted by Marie Bashkirtseff: "la citoyenne Pauline Orell", her name for attending the feminist society Le Droit des femmes (Hubertine Auclert's circle) in Dec. 1880 (1880-12-02, 1880-12-08; Mme de Daillens used "Alexandrine Norscott"), later reused as a disguise.

Pausilippe

- Type: places - neighborhoods

Pavelko

A lawyer of Poltava in the circle of Marie's father, autumn 1876. The Mon Journal t.9 index has "Pavelko (M.), avocat, [Cicéron]". Marie: "Pavelko est un avocat et le lion d'ici" (066/1876-09-06); "Pavelko un affreux avocat" among the hunters (066/1876-09-24), where she also calls him "notre Cicéron".

Pavillon Royal

The Pavillon Royal, a restaurant where Basilévitch begs the family to dine in August 1874. Not a person.

Pavloucha

Person in Marie's household who notices when she's upset about Lambertye not appearing.

Pavon

[Research needed]

Pecheur a la ligne

A painting by Marie, «mon Pêcheur à la ligne» (a fisherman angling): not a person. She gave it in August 1883 to the lottery for the victims of the Ischia earthquake ([Ischia lottery](../social_customs/ISCHIA_LOTTERY.md)).

Pêcheuse guettant la marée (Breslau, Salon 1882)

At the Salon of 1882 [Louise Breslau](../../people/artists/LOUISE_BRESLAU.md) showed two paintings (livret nos. 378-379 by the sequence; the OCR of the digitised catalogue is imperfect): "*Pêcheuse guettant la marée; baie du Mont-Saint-Michel*" and a *Portrait de jeune homme*. The catalogue entry reads "BRESLAU (Mlle Louise), née à Zurich (Suisse), élève de M. Tony Robert-Fleury. Avenue des Ternes, 40". The fisherwoman is thus the picture Marie calls "une pêcheuse au bord de la mer", which she says (December 1881) Breslau painted "cet été", i.e. the summer of 1881. The catalogue places the subject in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, on the Normandy-Brittany border (so "painted in Brittany" is only loosely right).

Pecoule

M. Pecoule, the *gérant* (manager or caretaker) of the villa at Nice that the family occupies from 30 January 1882. The Mon Journal t.14 index lists him as «Pecoule (M., gérant)» (p.283); he appears nowhere else.

Peinture

[Research needed]

Pelikan

- Type: people - mentioned

Pense a Pitou

Marie's nickname for a man she keeps seeing in Paris in May 1874. He is not identified.

Pension Huberkoller (Geneva)

Pension Huberkoller was a family boarding house (pension de famille) in Geneva where the Bashkirtseff family stayed in 1870 after initially lodging at the Hôtel de la Couronne. The pension had a spectacular view of Mont Blanc.

Pepino

Père Didon (Henri Didon)

Henri Didon (1840–1900), French Dominican preacher. His 1879 series of conferences on the indissolubility of marriage was bitterly attacked by the secular press and broken off at the request of the Archbishop of Paris; he published it as a book (Catholic Encyclopedia, «Henri Didon»; Wikipedia, «Henri Didon»). The Mon Journal t.13 index lists him as «Didon Père : 132-133, 206».

Père Lavigne

A Jesuit priest in Nice, described by Marie as a "ex-moine jésuite, chassé du couvent, venu à Nice sans un seul sou" (a former Jesuit monk, expelled from his convent, who arrived in Nice penniless). He subsequently built the large church on the Avenue de la Gare (now Avenue Jean Médecin) through the proceeds of his sermons and charity collections. Marie has a low opinion of him theologically ("il parle bien mais c'est un jésuite, une canaille") but admires his oratory and finds his life story a "curiosity."

Père Vassilieff (the Russian archpriest in Paris)

A Russian Orthodox archpriest in Paris and a regular dinner guest of the Bashkirtseffs from 1882 to 1884. Marie usually calls him simply «le pope» and names him only twice: «Le prêtre Vassilieff et la Tchernitsky dînent ici» (096.0077, 14 August 1882) and, on 4 June 1884, when two priests call: «Celui qui vient toujours est archiprêtre comme l'autre et qui s'appelle Wassilieff est le pope de la colonie pas chic. L'autre qui se nomme Prilejuyeff est le pope chic» (104.0513). On 2 October 1883 she adds «le pope que je pourrai bien nommer l'archiprêtre puisque c'est son vrai grade» (101.0485). The Mon Journal indexes list him as «Vassilieff (prêtre)» (t.15 p.59), «Vassilieff (pope)» (t.16, thirteen pages from p.31 to p.211) and «Wassilieff (archiprêtre)» (t.16 pp.222, 230, 235); «Prilejueff (pope)» (t.16 p.222) is the other priest.

Pergola

- Type: people - mentioned

Pergolese

- Type: people - mentioned

Perivier

- Type: people - mentioned

Pernety

Peronney

Persia

The country (now Iran), under the Qajars in Marie's day. The only tagged mention is in a dinner guest's biography: on 6 November 1874 in Nice «M. Lubimoff et fils, un vieux sénateur de Pétersbourg et ami d'Anitchkoff avant que ce dernier fût ambassadeur en Perse» (025.0148). The Shah's visit to Vienna in 1873 is in the separate entries for the Shah of Persia.

Persichini

- Type: people - mentioned

Pertusati

- Type: people - mentioned

Pesth

- Type: places - cities

Peter the Great

Peter I (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia and, from 1721, its first Emperor; founder of St Petersburg and victor over Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava on 27 June 1709 Old Style (8 July New Style) (Britannica, «Battle of Poltava»; en.wikipedia «Peter the Great»).

Peterhof (Peterhof)

Peterhof (now Petergof) is the imperial palace complex on the Gulf of Finland, about 30 km west of St. Petersburg. Built by Peter the Great beginning in 1714 and expanded by subsequent rulers, it was one of the most spectacular royal residences in the world, famous for its elaborate fountain system, gilded statues, and formal gardens. Known as the "Russian Versailles," Peterhof represented the grandeur of Russian imperial culture.

Petipa

Marius Petipa (1818-1910) was a French-born ballet dancer and choreographer who became one of the most influential figures in classical ballet history. During Marie's childhood in Russia (1860s), Petipa was rising to prominence at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he worked for nearly 60 years.

Petit

Petit Charles

Petit Saint Thomas

A Paris draper's and fashion shop, one of the earliest French *magasins de nouveautés*: Retronews calls it the first French grand magasin (it opened around 1820), and Aristide Boucicaut, later the owner of Le Bon Marché, was one of its clerks (Retronews, «Un lieu inédit ouvre ses portes à Paris : le Petit Saint-Thomas»; Hérodote, «Petite histoire des grands magasins français»).

Petit-Paul

- Type: people - mentioned

Petite tante

Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), Italian poet and scholar, author of the *Canzoniere*, whose lyrics celebrate his unattainable love Laura (en.wikipedia «Petrarch»).

Petrarque

- Type: people - mentioned

Phaéton

A phaéton (from the mythological Phaethon, who drove the sun chariot) is a light, open, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. In 19th-century usage, phaétons were sporty, owner-driven vehicles — unlike most carriages, the phaéton could be driven by the owner rather than a coachman, making it associated with personal dash and skill.

Philadelphia

The city in Pennsylvania that held the United States Centennial Exposition from 10 May to 10 November 1876 (en.wikipedia «Centennial Exposition»).

Philippini

Philosophy

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie engages with philosophical ideas, existential questions, reflections on the nature of life, death, fame, truth, morality, and human existence. It is one of the diary's recurring themes, reflecting the centrality of philosophical inquiry to Marie's intellectual life.

Photography (Photographie)

Photography was a relatively new technology in Marie's lifetime:

Phryne

Famous Greek courtesan (hetaera) of 4th century BCE Athens, model for Praxiteles.

Phta

- Type: people - mentioned

Piatnitzky

Piccon

Nice separatist politician who gave controversial speech advocating Nice's separation from France. Marie names her new white dog after him.

Picha

- Type: people - mentioned

Pickman

A Spanish family of the porcelain trade at Seville. Charles Pickman, an Englishman from Liverpool, founded the earthenware factory of La Cartuja in the former Carthusian monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas (1839 or 1841, sources differ); after his death in 1881 the firm passed to his heirs, among them his son Ricardo, who is called Marqués de Pickman (Archivo Histórico de Andalucía finding aid; en.wikipedia «Charles Pickman Jones»). The Mon Journal t.14 index has «Pickman y Pickma, (marquis espagnol) : 238».

Piedimonte

- Type: people - mentioned

Pierre

- Type: people - mentioned

Pierre Antonelli

Pierre Ivanovitch

- Type: people - mentioned

Pierre the Great

Pierre-Alfred Ravel (Actor)

**Pierre-Alfred Ravel** (January 6, 1811 – April 26, 1881) was a celebrated French actor of the 19th century, best known for his appearances in comedies. He was born in Bordeaux, the son of a horse dealer.

Pierre-Auguste Cot

Pierre-Auguste Cot (Bédarieux, 17 February 1837 – Paris, 1883), French academic painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William Bouguereau; Salon debut 1863, chevalier of the Légion d'honneur 1874, a fashionable portraitist, best known for *Le Printemps* (1873) and *L'Orage* (1880), both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (en.wikipedia "Pierre Auguste Cot"; Metropolitan Museum Journal 14, 1979). His death date is given as 2 August 1883 in most sources, 19 June 1883 by the BnF record (not resolved).

Pierre-François Wartel

French tenor and singing teacher, born at Versailles in 1806, died in Paris in 1882. After 1842 he gave himself mainly to teaching and was counted among the best teachers of his day; his pupils included Christine Nilsson and Zelia Trebelli. He was married to the pianist Thérèse Wartel; their son Émile was also a singer and teacher (Wikipedia, "François Wartel"). Sources differ on the day of his death (3 or 12 August 1882).

Pietri

[Research needed]

Pietro Antonelli

Pigalle

Hat maker or milliner in Nice who creates fashionable headwear for Marie and her family.

Pignatelli

- Type: people - mentioned

Pincia (Pincio II), Marie's dog

Marie's second white dog, a bitch bought in 1878 to replace [Pincio](PINTCHIK.md), who had been stolen in Paris in March 1878: «on m'a acheté un autre pareil avec la différence que celui-ci est une femelle. Ce faux Pincio m'a fait presque oublier le premier» (082.0284). Marie calls her «Pincio II» and «la Pincia». (The LAN note at 084.0487: Pincia is the female form of the name.)

Pincio (Pintchik), Marie's dog

Pincio, «blanc comme la neige» (067.1394), the small white dog Marie took a fancy to in Rome in 1876 and named after the Pincio gardens («à Rome, je me suis toquée d'un autre chien», 104.0518); «un petit chien romain, chien loup; blanc comme la neige, les oreilles droites, des yeux et un nez noirs comme de l'encre» (075.0441); the household also called him «Pintchik» («le pauvre petit Pincio dit Pintchik», 071.0392). He was stolen in Paris at the beginning of March 1878 and never found. Mon Journal indexes: t.8 p.171, t.10–t.13.

Pincio (Rome)

The **Pincio** is the Pincian Hill in Rome, the fashionable promenade and public garden above the Piazza del Popolo, where society drove and walked in the afternoon. It is a hill/garden, not a city (the entry was misfiled under places/cities).

Pindare

Pindar (c. 518–c. 438 BC), the Greek lyric poet of the victory odes (*Epinikia*) for the Olympic and other games (en.wikipedia «Pindar»). The Mon Journal t.3 index reads «Pindare, poète grec, 238».

Pitou

Pitou is Marie's pet monkey (Mon Journal t.1 index: «Pitou, singe de Marie»): «Dina a laissé Pitou (le singe) libre et lui, profitant de sa liberté, est monté sur un des plus hauts arbres» (005/1873-06-06, 005.0196). He lives in the Bashkirtseff household in Nice, rides in the carriage on the box with the dog Prater, bathes in the sea, and gets into mischief. He is not a dog.

Pizzardi

- Type: people - mentioned

place d Espagne

- Type: places - streets

Place de la Concorde

[Research needed]

Place du Peuple

- Type: places - streets

Place Masséna

Main square in Nice, center of social life and chance encounters. Named after Marshal André Masséna.

Place Saint Etienne

A square named once, to tell two tea-rooms apart: on 29 November 1874 Marie goes with her mother to the new Rumpelmayer at the Cercle de la Méditerranée, «pas celui de la place Saint-Étienne, mais celui du cercle de la Méditerranée, j'y suis entrée avec maman. C'est très gentillement arrangé, manque le monde quand on le connaîtra on viendra j'en suis sûre» (027.0076). So the Rumpelmayer of the place Saint-Étienne is the older, already known confectioner's of Nice; the square itself is named without a city, and nothing else is said of it. See [Rumpelmayer](../cities/RUMPELMAYER.md), [Cercle de la Méditerranée](../social/CERCLE_DE_LA_MEDITERRANEE.md).

Plancy

[Research needed]

Planté

Musician performing in Nice concert, likely Francis Planté, renowned French pianist of the era.

Plantus

«Le vieux Plantus», an elderly acquaintance of the [Howards](../recurring/HOWARD_FAMILY.md) and of Marie's family in Nice in 1873–74. The Mon Journal indexes list «Plantus (M.)» in t.2 (pp. 160–161, 185–186) and t.4 (p. 249). Nothing is known of him beyond the diary.

Plater

A count Plater moves in the Gavini circle in Paris in 1882–83. The surname is that of a Polish-Lithuanian noble family (en.wikipedia «Plater family»); which member this is, and his first name, are not given. Mon Journal t.14 index: «Plater (comte) : 274»; t.15: «Plater (comte) : 135, 178».

Platkarcha

A woman, or a nickname for one, who speaks to Marie in Russian at the Grand Prix de Paris on 14 June 1874. The word is printed in Russian in the manuscript (the edition's footnote: «Written in Russian in the manuscript; French translation by the editor») and marked in the text as a Russian word. The Mon Journal t.3 index lists it without gloss: «Platkarcha, 233».

Plevako

Fyodor Nikiforovich Plevako (1842–1909), the celebrated Moscow trial lawyer, born in Troitsk in the Orenburg province, a barrister of the Moscow Chamber of Appeals from 1870 and famous as an orator (Russian Presidential Library, prlib.ru «Fyodor Plevako (1842–1909)»; en.wikipedia «Fyodor Plevako»). He was the Bashkirtseff-Babanine family's lawyer in their lawsuit in Russia, in 1875–76.

Plevasko

Plevna

- Type: people - mentioned

Plobster

"Plobster" is Marie Bashkirtseff's invented code word for men who attract her attention, either through genuine appeal or ridiculous behavior. The term appears to be her creation, possibly a playful combination of words or a private joke within her circle.

Plowden

- Type: people - mentioned

Plutarch, Moralia (Œuvres morales)

The *Moralia* (Greek *Ēthiká*, French *Œuvres morales*) are the 78 essays and speeches attributed to Plutarch of Chaeronea, on ethics, religion, politics, education and natural questions, which circulated alongside his *Parallel Lives*. (Wikipedia, "Moralia".) Amyot's translation of 1572 made them a classic of French prose; Montaigne's *Essais* are full of them. The *Lives* are treated in [Parallel Lives](./PARALLEL_LIVES.md).

Plutarque

[Research needed]

Poem on Schlangenbad (1876)

A rhymed daydream that Marie Bashkirtseff wrote into her diary on **11 June 1876** (062.0325), in the middle of an ordinary prose paragraph. Sitting in the garden at Nice on a calm moonlit evening, half listening to her aunt, she lets her fancy drift to the spa of [Schlangenbad](../../places/cities/SCHLANGENBAD.md) in Germany, where she walks under a leafy tunnel of trees and a man she has hoped for, without daring to expect him, comes towards her, offers her his arm and walks with her, "mon cœur est ému, j'ai peur et ma voix tremble". The lines are irregular verse, mostly rhyming, with a line and a half struck out by Marie in the manuscript (marked in the text as "UNE LIGNE ET DEMIE RAYÉE"). The poem is not a separate document and has no title; "poem on Schlangenbad" is how Marie herself later describes it.

Poésies (Sully Prudhomme)

Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme, 1839–1907) was a Parnassian poet whose philosophical and often abstract verse made him the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1901; Wikipedia EN, "Sully Prudhomme"). By 1884 his published collections included *Stances et Poèmes* (1865), *Les Solitudes* (1869) and *Les Vaines Tendresses* (1875), the dates given on the Wikisource author page. The Wikisource links above give these and the other collections.

Poitrineau

[Research needed]

Poland (Pologne)

Poland did not exist as an independent state during Marie Bashkirtseff's lifetime, having been partitioned among Russia, Austria, and Prussia in 1772-1795. However, Poland remained a powerful cultural and political concept. Polish émigrés formed significant communities in Paris and other Western cities, and the "Polish Question" was a recurring topic in European politics. Marie encountered Polish aristocrats and artists in the social circles of Nice and Paris.

Polazac

[Research needed]

Politics

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie discusses political events, politicians, elections, political opinions, political journalism, and the intersection of politics with her social world. It is one of the diary's recurring themes, reflecting how deeply political life permeated Marie's existence -- from salon conversations and newspaper reading to her infatuations with political figures.

Poliuto

- Type: people - mentioned

Pollack

A Pollack family that Marie meets in Madrid in October 1881 and sees again in Paris in 1882: the father, an administrator of railways (in Madrid; the Mon Journal t.14 index says «Pollack (M.), administrateur des chemins de fer», with the wife «Pollack (Mme)», a daughter «Pollack (Mlle)» and «Pollack (fils, peintre)»), his son, a young painter, and a daughter who sings. The name is also spelt «Pollak» in the diary. Their given names are not recorded.

Pollet

M. Pollet, an author (Mon Journal t.3 index: «Pollet (M.), écrivain, 206») of a book on horse riding. Not further identified.

Polonaise

- Type: people - mentioned

Poloubotok

Poltava

Poltava is a historic city in central Ukraine that served as the administrative center of Poltava Governorate (gubernia) during the Russian Empire. Marie Bashkirtseff was born near Poltava on November 11, 1859 (though some sources cite 1858), into a wealthy noble family.

Polycrate (Polycrates)

Polycrates, tyrant of Samos (c. 538-522 BCE), referenced by Marie in self-reflection.

Pomme d Api

*Pomme d'api*, a one-act operetta by Jacques Offenbach (libretto by Ludovic Halévy and William Busnach), first given at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 4 September 1873 and moved to the Bouffes-Parisiens in April 1874 (en.wikipedia «Pomme d'api»; IMSLP).

Pompeii (Pompei)

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, was one of the most dramatic archaeological destinations available to 19th-century travelers. Located near Naples, it was an essential stop on Marie Bashkirtseff's Italian journeys. The ongoing excavations revealed daily life in the ancient world with unprecedented vividness, and the site was a powerful attraction for artists, scholars, and tourists.

pont d Avignon

- Type: places - landmarks

Pont Magnan

A bridge in Nice named as a landmark on the way to the Var. On 17 May 1875 Marie hears songs «surtout du côté du pont Magnan et de la rue de France, ces braves Niçois retournent du festin du Var (tous les jours presque il y a de ces festins en mai) où ils ont dansé et chantent, sinon bien, du moins de bon cœur» (033.0016). On 13 June 1875, in a dialogue, someone says they are «Entre le pont Magnan et chez vous» (034.0220). The Magnan is the stream at the western edge of the town, toward the Var (inferred from the diary's phrase; not checked against a map in this pass).

Pont Magnan (Magnan Bridge)

Bridge in Nice over the Magnan river, marking riding territory.

Pont Neuf

Bridge or location in Nice.

Pope Pius IX

In every paragraph tagged here «le pape» / «le Pape» / «le Saint-Père» is Pope **Pius IX** (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, 1792-1878, pope from 1846 until his death on 7 February 1878; Wikipedia, «Pope Pius IX»). Marie names him herself: «Pie IX m'a paru plus jeune cette fois» (054.0168), «Pie IX (Mastaï Ferretti)» (062.0575), «Ce Mastaï Ferretti a la vie dure» (062.0827). The Mon Journal indexes list him as «Pie IX» (t.2 p.47; t.6 pp.343-344; t.7; t.8; t.9).

Porchefontaine

Porchefontaine is a district in Versailles where horse races were held. Marie attends races there on Sunday, August 24, 1873.

Porcinari

- Type: people - mentioned

Porte Saint Martin

- Type: people - mentioned

Porthos

Portrait

[Research needed]

Portrait d'Olga (1875)

The *Portrait d'Olga* is a portrait of [Olga Sapogenikoff](../../people/mentioned/OLGA.md), begun on **29 March 1875** in Nice jointly by Marie and [Marie Sapogenikoff](../../people/mentioned/MARIE_SAPOGENIKOFF.md) (Olga's sister), taken up in colour by Marie alone on **20 September 1875**, and never finished. Marie herself later wrote in the margin of the 20 September entry that none of this was completed (043.0249).

Portrait de Collignon

The *Portrait de Collignon* is the portrait of her former governess, [Mlle Collignon](../../people/mentioned/COLLIGNON.md), that Marie painted in Nice in the spring of 1876, when she was seventeen. It was started on **23 May 1876** and finished on **20 June 1876**. It was her first finished portrait from life: in her summing-up of her training she lists "trente-deux leçons ... de peinture avec Katorbinsky à Rome. Ensuite le portrait de Collignon et puis ? Rien" (076.0447-0448, 19 December 1877). **Where the picture is now is not known**, and no reproduction has been found.

Portrait de dame (Athènes)

*Portrait of a Lady*, about 1881, oil on canvas, 63 × 59 cm, is in the **National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum** in Athens, inventory **Π.267**. The museum's record names the donor as "Maria Stepanovna Baskirtzeff-Babanina", the artist's mother, so Greece is one more of the countries where she placed her daughter's work after 1884. The record gives no date of the gift. A copy of the image published on Europeana under CC BY-NC-ND shows a young woman in a black hat with a white collar.

Portrait de grand-maman (1877)

The *Portrait de grand-maman* is a portrait of Marie's grandmother, started on **31 May 1877** at Nice "d'après un pastel plus petit que nature", enlarged by her, and finished on **10 June 1877** after six days of work. It belongs to the spring of 1877, four months before she entered the Académie Julian. The picture is not described beyond its size and its origin, and no reproduction is known.

Portrait de Jacques (1884)

The *Portrait de Jacques* is a portrait in oil of a small boy called Jacques who sat to Marie in Paris from January to June 1884. It is not the same as the double picture [Jean et Jacques](./JEAN_ET_JACQUES.md) (1883). The diary shows Marie unhappy with it throughout: it was one of the works she lent to the Union des femmes peintres exhibition in March 1884, and in June she calls it, with the Sèvres picture, one of her "deux cauchemars". Where it is now is not known; a *Portrait de Jacques Rendouin*, 0.85 x 0.54 m, is no. 42 of the 1885 memorial catalogue and may be the same picture, though the diary never gives a surname.

Portrait de jeune femme (1878)

A head-and-shoulders study of a dark-haired young woman with a red bow in her hair, oil on canvas (relined), 55 × 46,5 cm. It is monogrammed **M. B.** lower right and dated **"X 78"** upper left, scratched into the wet paint; the "X" is most naturally read as the Roman numeral for October. It was sold at **Villa Grisebach**, Berlin, on 2 December 2022 (auction 347, lot 300), with an estimate of €25,000–35,000, from a private collection in southern Germany.

Portrait de l'artiste (fusain, Petit Palais)

A drawing in charcoal and white chalk on paper, catalogued by the **Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris** as *Portrait de l'artiste*, inventory **PPD1014**. The museum's detailed record gives it as 61 × 47 cm (framed 80 × 65 cm) and says it was given by hand by Marie Stepanovna Babanine, the artist's mother, on 11 July 1916. It is the third Bashkirtseff in the Petit Palais, beside *[La Parisienne](./LA_PARISIENNE.md)* (given 1902) and the drawing *[Femme lisant à l'angle d'un piano](./FEMME_LISANT_PIANO.md)* (given 1907).

Portrait de la comtesse Dina de Toulouse-Lautrec (pastel)

*Portrait de la comtesse Dina de Toulouse-Lautrec* (pastel on paper, 61 × 50 cm) is Marie's most celebrated work in pastel and hangs today in the **Musée d'Orsay**, inv. **RF 39091**. The sitter is her cousin **Dina Babanina**, later Comtesse de Toulouse-Lautrec, who was also her most frequent and most reluctant model.

Portrait de Madame Po (Portrait d'une vieille femme)

«Портрет старушки. Мадам По» ("Portrait of an old woman. Madame Po") is an oil on canvas of **1880**, 55 × 45,5 cm, in the **V. I. Surikov Krasnoyarsk Art Museum**. The museum describes a head-and-shoulders study of an elderly woman with dark eyes and swarthy skin in a white cap, set against a freely painted dark ground. It places the picture in the period just after Marie's Salon debut of 1880, when she was taking portrait sitters.

Portrait de Madame Récamier (David)

The *Portrait de Madame Récamier* (1800) by Jacques-Louis David shows Juliette Récamier (1777-1849), the banker's wife and salon hostess, reclining barefoot on a classical couch in a plain white high-waisted dress, in a bare room. David left the portrait unfinished; it is in the **Musée du Louvre** (INV 3708). The Directoire / Empire costume and the daybed (the *récamier*) became the emblem of the age. (Sources: Musée du Louvre; Wikimedia Commons file records.)

Portrait de Marie par Tony Robert-Fleury (1882)

The portrait of Marie painted by her Julian-atelier master [#Tony Robert-Fleury](../../people/artists/ROBERT_FLEURY.md) in Paris, in sittings from early August to 14 December 1882, paid for with 4,000 francs on 24 December 1882 and delivered to the Bashkirtseff house on 8 January 1883. It is not by Marie (compare her own portraits, e.g. [#Portrait de Dina (pastel)](PORTRAIT_DINA_PASTEL.md)). Marie calls it «mon portrait»; the diary does not give its title, size or present whereabouts, and none is stated here.

Portrait de Mme Drouet (Bastien-Lepage)

A small oil portrait (36 × 31 cm) of **Juliette Drouet** (1806-1883), the actress who became [Victor Hugo's](../../people/mentioned/VICTOR_HUGO.md) companion for fifty years, painted by [Jules Bastien-Lepage](../../people/recurring/BASTIEN_LEPAGE.md) in 1883, a few months before her death on 11 May 1883. Signed and dated lower left "J. BASTIEN-LEPAGE 1883". It stayed with the painter, appeared in the sale of his studio on 11-12 May 1885 as "Portrait de Mme X." (identified by the annotated catalogue as "Drouet", 11,500 francs, bought by Boussod-Valadon / Goupil), and eventually passed to Marie-Henriette Rodriguez-Péreire, who bequeathed it to the museum; it entered the collection in 1931. It is held by the Maisons de Victor Hugo (Paris Musées, Hauteville House inventory no. 266). (Source: Paris Musées Collections record, via the Wikimedia Commons file description.)

Portrait de Mme X

*Portrait de Mme X* (pastel and charcoal, 56 × 46,5 cm, 1884) is in the **Musée d'Orsay, Paris**, inv. **RF 1565** (also recorded as JdeP 515, from its time at the Jeu de Paume). It was **purchased in 1885** — the year of the posthumous memorial exhibition, and the same year the French State bought *Un meeting*.

Portrait de sa belle-sœur (Alexandrine Patchenko)

*Portrait de sa belle-sœur* (oil on canvas, 92,5 × 73 cm, 1881) is Marie's portrait of **Alexandrine Patchenko**, the wife of her brother Paul. It is in the **Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam**, inv. **SK-A-1988**, given to the museum by the artist's mother, Maria Stepanovna Bashkirtseva née Babanina, in **June 1902**. It is monogrammed "MB / 1881" at lower right and was painted in Paris.

Portrait de son frère Paul

*Portrait de son frère Paul* is Marie's portrait of her brother **Paul Bashkirtseff**, dated **1876** and held by the **Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice**. If the 1876 date is right, it is one of the earliest surviving works by her hand — painted when she was seventeen or eighteen, more than a year before she entered the Académie Julian in October 1877.

Portrait du prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

Marie's portrait of her friend **[Bojidar Karageorgevitch](../../people/recurring/BOJIDAR.md)**, oil on canvas, 116 × 73 cm, signed lower left "Bashkirtseff, 1883", is in the **National Museum of Serbia** in Belgrade, inventory **NMS 34_912**. The museum's 2026 exhibition catalogue describes the prince leaning nonchalantly on a railing, with an urban landscape stretching away behind him and a fragment of street at lower left. It reads the picture as a play between interior and open air, and between home and the freedom of the street, a subject that occupied Marie in her last years.

Portrait du sculpteur Martínez Montañés (Velázquez)

The *Portrait of the sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés* (c. 1635-36) by Diego Velázquez shows the Seville sculptor (1568-1649) in black, his sculpting hand held out in front of the half-finished clay head of Philip IV he was modelling at the time (Velázquez painted it while the sculptor was in Madrid for that commission). It is in the **Museo del Prado, Madrid**. (Sources: Museo del Prado; Commons description of the Prado file; the sitter and subject are well established, the date varies slightly between catalogues.)

Portrait of a girl (Armandine Babanin?)

*Portrait of a girl (Armandine Babanin?)*, the Ostrava gallery's title (*Portrét dívky*; oil on canvas, 58 × 44,5 cm, signed and dated 1880, inv. O0827), long known online as *Portrait de Jenny* or *Petite fille*, hangs in the **Galerie výtvarného umění v Ostravě** — and it is, as far as this project's research can establish, **the only painting by Marie Bashkirtseff in the Czech Republic**.

Portrait of Pepino on a blue ground (1875)

On **29 October 1875** Marie stays in because "il n'y aura personne, Lachaud plaide" (the trial of the lawyer [#Lachaud](../../people/mentioned/LACHAUD.md) keeps the Promenade empty) and writes: "je suis en train de mettre au monde un Pépino immense, sur fond bleu" (048.0166). It is a large picture of **Pepino** (Albert Gautier of Nice, see [#Albert_Gautier](../../people/mentioned/ALBERT_GAUTIER.md)) on a blue ground. Marie does not say whether it is a painting, a pastel or a caricature, nor whether "immense" refers to the size of the picture or to the sitter, whom she calls a few days later "cet immense bâton de télégraphe" (6 November, 048.0652). **Whereabouts unknown; no image.**

Portrait of the little Maurel (1881)

On **19 May 1881**, in Paris, Marie writes: "Depuis mardi [17 May] je fais le portrait de la fille du célèbre baryton Maurel. Elle a quatorze ans et demi et est ravissante. C'est Villevieille qui l'a amenée." (092.0024). The father is the baritone Victor Maurel, who with his wife lived in a small house in the rue Lord Byron and gave "soirées artistiques"; he came to the atelier with a visitor named Saint Amand ([#Saint_Amand](../../people/writers/SAINT_AMAND.md); not identified here) the day before and again on the 19th, and Marie, hearing that he also paints, remarks that he is a painter as Ingres was a violinist. On **21 May**: "Ce matin j'ai fini le portrait de la petite Maurel" (092.0034), with Villevieille present and the girl's mother visiting. Three days of sittings, then. The girl's first name is not given. **The portrait's whereabouts are unknown; no image.**

Portraits of Melissano (1877)

Between April and June 1877 Marie made at least three versions of the portrait of the young Neapolitan prince of Melissano, whom she calls a "singe" in her diary and who followed her around Naples that spring ([#Melissano](../../people/mentioned/MELISSANO.md)). **26 April 1877, Naples (071.0007)**: "J'ai croqué la tête de Melissano grandeur naturelle, en deux minutes. Porcinari tenait la toile ... La ressemblance est frappante." **27 April (071.0013-0014, 071.0021)**: Melissano poses and she does a colour portrait in an hour and a half, "le nez un peu allongé pour plus de cachet"; Doenhoff praises it, and Melissano takes it away to show the princess of Piedimonte. **23 May, Nice (071.0428)**: in a letter to Marcuard she says she has just finished Melissano, composed so far to the left that the right side is empty, and asks for a photograph of Marcuard's friend Alexandre (Count Alessandro de Larderel, [#Larderel](../../people/mentioned/LARDEREL.md)) from which to paint a *pendant* ("un pendant à ce cher prince"). **30 May (071.0492)**: she has made "une copie du portrait de Melissano en une heure et dix minutes". **31 May (071.0508)**: "Le nouveau Melissano est mieux réussi que le premier." **11 June (072.0006-0007)**: she shows her father "Alexandre et Melissano" (the pair of portraits, presumably) and he reads Melissano's character from the nose: "un être profondément voluptueux, son nez renferme toutes les passions".

Portugal Minister

A minister (diplomat) of Portugal whom Marie meets at the balls of Ostend in late August and early September 1874. He is never named in the diary, and the Mon Journal t.4 index has no entry for him.

Posati

- Type: people - mentioned

poste Luxembourg

- Type: people - mentioned

Poste Madeleine

- Type: people - mentioned

Potechine

- Type: people - mentioned

Pouhon

The Pouhon (today the Pouhon Pierre-le-Grand), the best-known mineral spring of Spa, in the centre of the town. Belgian heritage sources say the Pouhon and the Sauvenière have been in use since the sixteenth century (Jan Breughel mentions both in 1612) and that the Pouhon's present pavilion dates from 1880, so the building Marie knew in 1874 was an earlier one (Great Spa Towns of Europe, Spa dossier; Historic Thermal Towns, «Spa»). The earlier entry's claim that it is Spa's oldest spring is not supported by these sources and is dropped.

Pourtales

Pourville

[Research needed]

Pousslowsky

- Type: people - mentioned

Poustynka

A house, probably a country house or dacha, that Marie knew in her childhood in Russia, with walls covered in bark. The word is Russian, *пустынька*, a diminutive of *пустынь* (a hermitage, a place apart); the diary uses it as a proper name. The Mon Journal t.2 index has no entry for it.

Pozzuali

- Type: people - mentioned

Prater

Marie's big yellow-coated dog, bought for her in Vienna in 1870 at three weeks old and named, as the LAN notes assume, after the Vienna Prater park. He is her faithful companion in the early years, later taken over by her mother, and he outlives most of the diary: his death is recorded on 1884-06-05 (104), only months before Marie's own.

Pratt

- Type: people - mentioned

Pre Catalan

- Type: people - mentioned

Preaulx

- Type: people - mentioned

Prédiction de Cassandre

*Prédiction de Cassandre* is a comic poem in refrain form that Marie composed in Nice on **6 October 1875** and reworked on **1-2 December 1875**. It prophesies that [Émile d'Audiffret](../../people/recurring/EMILE_D_AUDIFFRET.md) -- the young man she calls Girofla and is fixed on that autumn -- will leave Nice for Paris, spend his money on restaurants, dance halls and women, make a scandal, and in the last line of every stanza "pourrira" (rot). The title borrows the myth of Cassandra, whose true prophecies nobody believed.

Preiss

- Type: people - mentioned

Près de la cathédrale, Grenade

A small oil on wooden panel, 40,7 × 32,7 cm, dated **1881**, in the **V. I. Surikov Krasnoyarsk Art Museum** under the Russian title «У собора в Испании. Гренада» ("By the cathedral in Spain. Granada"). The museum showed it in its exhibition *От иконописи до модерна* ("From icon-painting to modernism"), and the culture.ru Artefact record links it to the Russian State Museum Catalogue (goskatalog id 1248709).

President Republique

- Type: people - mentioned

Press clipping

Marie pasted newspaper cuttings and other printed matter into her notebooks: society columns that mention her or her family, reviews, reports she wanted to keep. The uncensored edition keeps them in place, on the day where she put them. Each one is a paragraph of its own, marked as a clipping, printed as a quotation and tagged with this entry and, where one exists, with the newspaper's own entry (for example [#Le_Figaro](./LE_FIGARO.md) or [#Le_Gaulois](./LE_GAULOIS.md)).

Pressac

[Research needed]

Priam

- Type: people - mentioned

Pribilsky

[Research needed]

Prince Alexander Gorchakov (Gortchakoff)

Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1798–1883), Russian foreign minister and chancellor of the Empire. The Mon Journal t.13 index lists «Gortchakoff (prince Alexndre Mikhaïlovitch) : 121, 316» [sic].

Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch

Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch (Serbian Aleksa Karađorđević, 10 June 1859 – 15 February 1920) was the elder son of Prince George Karageorgevitch (1827–1884) and Sarka (Sara) Anastasijević, daughter of the Serbian statesman and banker Miša Anastasijević. His younger brother was the painter and writer [Bojidar](./BOJIDAR.md). He was born five months after his great-uncle Alexander Karageorgevitch was forced to abdicate as Prince of Serbia in 1858, and grew up in exile in Paris. His grandfather and namesake, Alexis Karageorgevitch (1801–1830), was the eldest son of Karađorđe Petrović, founder of the dynasty, and the older brother of Alexander. (Wikipedia, "Prince Alexis Karageorgevich", citing the family genealogies.)

Prince Auguste de Hohenlohe Oehringen

Prince Belmonte

A young Roman nobleman of the Caccia-Club barcaccia whom Marie calls "mon ennemi" because she imagines he speaks ill of her.

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (Serbian Božidar Karađorđević) was born on 11 January 1862 and died of typhoid fever at Versailles on 2 April 1908; he is buried at Père-Lachaise. He was the second son of Prince George Karageorgevitch (1827-1884), a member of the senior line of the Serbian dynasty that had lost the throne in 1858, and of Sara (Sarka) Anastasijević (1836-1931), daughter of the Serbian magnate Miša Anastasijević. His elder brother was [Alexis](./ALEXIS.md) (1859-1920); a younger sister, born in 1862, died in childhood (the English Wikipedia article on Bojidar gives 1867 and notes that her name is not recorded). The family lived in exile in France. In the diary the mother is [Princess Karageorgevitch](../mentioned/PRINCESS_KARAGEORGEVITCH.md), the father usually "le vieux prince", and the whole family "les Karageorgevitch" ([#Karageorgevitch](../mentioned/KARAGEORGEVITCH.md)); Marie also speaks of "les Bojidar" for the family (101.0380).

Prince Carl (Charles) of Prussia

Prince Carl of Prussia (29 June 1801 – 21 January 1883), a son of King Frederick William III and brother of Emperor Wilhelm I, travelled often in Italy (Wikipedia, «Prince Carl of Prussia»). In the diary he is «le prince de Prusse» or «le prince Charles de Prusse». His court marshal was Count Gerhard Dönhoff, whom Marie knew well: the Mon Journal t.10 index describes Doenhoff as «chambellan de l'empereur d'Allemagne, maréchal de la cour du prince Charles de Prusse» (see [#Doenhoff](../mentioned/DOENHOFF.md)).

Prince d Autriche

- Type: people - aristocracy

prince de Bourbon

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince de Conde

The Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, whose seat was the château of Chantilly. The last Prince de Condé, Louis Henri Joseph, died in 1830 and the Condé estates, including Chantilly, passed to his great-nephew Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (en.wikipedia «Louis Henri, Prince of Condé»; «Princes of Condé»). The entry is filed among the aristocracy.

prince de Galles

- Type: people - aristocracy

prince de Hohenlohe

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince de Melissano

Prince de Piemont

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince de Santasiglia

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Dolgorouky

Prince Eristoff

Marie's cousin, Russian prince.

Prince Eristoff

Prince et Princesse Mechtcherski

«La princesse Mechtchersky», a Russian princess of the Rome colony in 1876, seen with the Russian ambassadress: «l'ambassadrice avec la princesse Mechtchersky» at the Villa Borghese (055.1205, 26 March 1876). Probably the wife of the [old prince](PRINCE_MECHTCHERSKY.md) and the mother of [Mlle Mechtchersky](MLLE_MECHTCHERSKY.md). In August 1878 at Soden Marie meets «le prince et la princesse Mechtcherski de Rome», who recognise the family after church (082.0181). Mon Journal t.7 index: «Mechtchersky (princesse) : 177, 207, 291»; t.9: «Mechtchersky (princesse) : 299, 326, 328» (the 1877 «princesse Mechtchersky» who marries Fabrizio Spinosa Ruffo is probably the daughter: see MLLE_MECHTCHERSKY).

Prince Gagarine

A Russian prince of the Gagarine family (Gagarin), seen among the Russian society of Nice and Paris in the early 1870s. The Mon Journal indexes list «Gagarine (prince)» in t.1 (pp. 31, 48–50, 89), t.2 (pp. 169, 171, 178, 198) and t.3 (pp. 54–55, 69, 98, 256), and «Gagarine (princesse)» in t.3. The entry is tagged on a single paragraph; whether the earlier index entries belong to the same man is not established.

Prince Giovanni Borghese

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Gortschakoff

Prince Gryf-Jaxa-Bikowsky («Bikowsky de Nice»)

A Bikowsky whom Marie meets in Nice in February 1877 and sees daily in Naples in March 1877. She keeps him apart from the small Bikowsky of Paris in 1873 ([BIKOWSKY](BIKOWSKY.md)): «j'ai rencontré Bikowsky de Nice. C'est le cousin de celui de Paris et ses cartes portent une couronne de prince et-Gryf-Jaxa-Bikowsky» (069.0430). The *Mon Journal* t.10 index has «Gryf-Jaxa-Bikowsky (prince), 36-38, 40-41»; the t.9 index has only «Bikowsky (M.) : 291» (the Nice meeting).

Prince Humbert

Prince Imperial (Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte)

Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), known as the Prince Imperial, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. His death in June 1879 during the Zulu War was a major political and emotional event for Bonapartists, including Marie Bashkirtseff.

Prince Ipsilani

A prince «Ipsilani» whom Marie notes at Ostend in August 1874 and dreams about in November; the name is that of the Greek Phanariot family Ypsilantis (Ypsilanti), princely in Russian and Romanian history (en.wikipedia «Ypsilantis family»). The Mon Journal t.4 index has «Ipsilani (prince), 101, 203». The diary does not say which member of the family he is.

Prince Jaxa

prince Jerome

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Louis Esterhazy

Hungarian prince, renowned gentleman-rider who stayed at Shepheard's Hotel with Hamilton and won races on Hamilton's horse.

prince Louis-Napoleon

- Type: people - aristocracy

prince Lucien Murat

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Mechtchersky

«Le vieux prince Mechtchersky», a Russian prince of the Rome colony in 1876, father, it seems, of the [Mlle Mechtchersky](MLLE_MECHTCHERSKY.md) whom Torlonia courts. At the Capitol masked ball of 18 February 1876 «Dina est enlevée par le vieux prince Mechtchersky» (054.0225); at the ball of 25 February Marie walks off with him as a cover: «Je rencontre le prince Mechtchersky et m'en vais avec lui, il me sert de contenance» (054.0451), passing herself off as an Italian with him (054.0461). On 2 April 1876 «les Mechtchersky» are among the Russians on the lawn (056.0333), and Marie goes back to her box «avec Mechtchersky» at an Apollo ball (056.0350). Mon Journal t.7 index: «Mechtchersky (prince) : 70, 87, 207, 209, 268», apart from «Mechtchersky (princesse)» (see [Prince et Princesse Mechtcherski](PRINCE_ET_PRINCESSE_MECHTCHERSKI.md)) and «Mechtchersky (Mlle)». Which of the many princes Meshchersky he was is not known.

Prince Melissano

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Michel (Michka) Eristoff

A young Georgian-descended prince of the Poltava region and a neighbour of the Bashkirtseffs in Little Russia. Marie writes his full name once, in a dedication she dictates to him on 25 September 1876: "prince Michel Andryevitch Eristoff d'Aragwa" (066.0463), "d'Aragwa" referring to the Eristavi of Aragvi, one of the princely houses of Georgia that became Russian princes. "Michka" is the Russian diminutive of Mikhail (the footnote at 096.0389: "diminutive of Michel/Mikhail").

Prince Napoleon

Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon)

"Plon-Plon" was the popular nickname for Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-1891), a member of the Bonaparte family and a political figure during the Second Empire and early Third Republic. His more formal title was Prince Jerome Napoleon.

Prince Napoleon Jerome

Prince Nicolas de Nassau

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Odescalchi

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince of Wales

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910), later King Edward VII of England. Son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Marie becomes obsessed with him after seeing him at the theater in Nice in March 1875.

prince Orloff

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Ouroussoff

Mon Journal t.12 index: «Ourousoff (Serge prince) : 63, 65, 67, 70-73, 75-76, 78, 85, 90». A Russian guest at Soden in August 1878: ma tante speaks to him about the decoration for Cassagnac (081.0593), and Marie hopes he can introduce her at the Russian embassy in Paris (081.0621). The print once spells him «Ourassoff» (082.0127). Not identified further.

Prince Paul Demidoff of San Donato

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov (9 October 1839 – 26 January 1885), 2nd Prince of San Donato, heir to the Demidov mining and industrial fortune and one of the richest Russians of his day. He married Princess Maria Meshcherskaya (1867; she died in 1868) and in 1871 Princess Elena (Hélène) Petrovna Trubetskaya. In 1872 he bought the villa and park of Pratolino near Florence, where he died (Wikipedia, «Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato»).

prince Philippe de Bourbon

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Pierre Bonaparte

Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (1815–1881), son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Napoleon I, notorious for shooting the journalist Victor Noir in January 1870 (footnotes at 090.0234 and 097.0349; en.wikipedia «Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte»). He married late Éléonore-Justine Ruflin, «la princesse Pierre» ([PRINCESSE_PIERRE_BONAPARTE](PRINCESSE_PIERRE_BONAPARTE.md)); their children were Roland Bonaparte and Jeanne, marquise de Villeneuve ([PRINCESSE_JEANNE_BONAPARTE](PRINCESSE_JEANNE_BONAPARTE.md)).

Prince Pierre de Wittgenstein

«Le prince de Wittgenstein», a Russian prince with a villa in Nice, with whom the young Marie is fascinated in 1873-1875. The Mon Journal (t.3) index lists him as «Wittgenstein (Pierre, prince de), [Blackprince], [Bute]». Marie's text calls him «russe» («on voit bien qu'il est russe et ours», 018.0209) and «le prince de Wittgenstein» (018.0120); in a struck-out passage of April 1874 he is her «Blackprince» («le prince noir», 018/1874-04-05). His companion is Rosalie Léon, the demi-mondaine whom the index lists as «La Wittgenstein» (see [Rosalie Léon](../mentioned/ROSALIE_LEON.md)); Marie writes of him «avec une cocotte» (059.0082).

Prince Pierre Karageorgevitch

Prince Peter Karageorgevitch (1844–1921), Marie's friend Bojidar's cousin, pretender to the Serbian throne in exile; he married Princess Zorka of Montenegro in 1883 (30 July or 1 August, sources differ) at Cetinje and became King Peter I of Serbia in 1903 (en.wikipedia «Princess Zorka of Montenegro»; «Peter I of Serbia»). Marie's friends [BOJIDAR](../recurring/BOJIDAR.md) and [ALEXIS](../recurring/ALEXIS.md) are the sons of Prince Georges, who had renounced the throne for himself and his descendants (Mon Journal t.12 p.240).

Prince Radzivill

A Prince Radziwill (the Polish-Lithuanian princely house; en.wikipedia «Radziwiłł family») seen at Ostend in August 1874. The Mon Journal t.4 index has «Radzivill (prince), 109»; he is not otherwise identified. A separate, empty entry, [RADZIVILL](../mentioned/RADZIVILL.md), exists.

Prince Reuss

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Serge Kotchoubey

The owner of [Dikanka](../../places/residences/DIKANKA.md), the great Kotchoubey estate ten kilometres from Gavronzi, and a friend of Marie's father in 1876. Marie names him: «Nous avons été chez le prince Serge Kotchoubey» (066.0576, 066/1876-10-01), and calls the statesman Victor Pavlovitch Kotchoubey «le père du prince actuel» (066.0578). The Mon Journal t.9 index lists him as «Kotchoubey (prince Serge)», apart from «Kotchoubey (Victor Pavlovitch), (grand chancelier de l'Empire)» and «Kotchoubey (princesse)». Wikipedia («Maria Vasilyevna Kochubey») lists a Sergey Viktorovich among the children of Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey and his wife, which agrees with Marie's «le père du prince actuel». His first name in Russian (Sergei Viktorovich) is taken from that list; no biography was checked.

Prince Serignano

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Soutzo

A young Romanian-Greek prince of the Soutzo (Sutu, Sutzu) family, about twenty-two or twenty-three when Marie first notes him in January 1880 ("assez beau garçon brun, pâle, carré, portant binocle", 087.0390), so born around 1857–58. She explains him to her diary in one line: "un Karageorges valaque ou roumain. Bonne famille, beau nom", with a fortune of "400.000 francs, dit-on" and a sister married to "M. de Werbranck, directeur de la Banque parisienne" (087.0390). She calls him "Casimir" from May 1880 (088.0285 onward) and notes on 18 May that "le second nom de Soutzo est Alexandre" (088.0217). In the diary he is also "le petit", "le petit chien" (087.0449), "jeune Athénien" (089.0512): the Soutzos had a branch in Athens as well as in Bucharest and Paris.

prince Strozzi

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Tcherkassky

A Russian prince, husband of [the princess Tcherkassky](PRINCESSE_TCHERKASSKY.md), met by Marie at Schlangenbad in August 1875. He is the Tcherkassky of the Mon Journal t.5 index («Tcherkassy (prince)», pp. 243–244, 246, 254, 257, 261). Marie finds the couple not «du grand monde» but «gentils»; he is a joker who teases the young attaché and, according to Marie, hates his wife after five years of marriage (039.0145).

Prince Tchetvertinski

Russian prince who reminds Marie strongly of someone named Chilovski in his manner of speaking. Present at the Masséna charity sale in February 1874.

Prince Tchetvertinsky

Prince Tondi

- Type: people - aristocracy

Prince Victor

[Research needed]

Prince Wittgenstein

Prince Zunica

- Type: people - aristocracy

Princes de Reuss

- Type: people - mentioned

Princes Orleans

- Type: people - mentioned

Princes Victor and Basile Kotchoubey (Dikanka, 1882)

The two young princes Kotchoubey of [Dikanka](../../places/residences/DIKANKA.md), neighbours of Gavrontsi, whom Marie's family hopes to marry her to in the autumn of 1882: «les princes Kotchoubey, ils sont deux; jeunes, orphelins, chevaliers-gardes et immensément riches» (096.0014, 4 August 1882). The elder is **Victor**, the younger **Basile** (Vassily): «L'aîné Victor est mince, brun… Le cadet Basile est aussi grand, beaucoup plus gros, très blond» (096.0407); «le cadet a vingt-et-un ans à peine» (096.0462). Their «quasi-sœur» (097.0046) is Mme Volkovitsky, the natural daughter of Prince Serge Kotchoubey (066.0244), who comes «avec ses frères de Dikanka» (097.0045): they are thus the two sons of [Prince Serge Kotchoubey](PRINCE_SERGE_KOTCHOUBEY.md), the widower Marie met at Dikanka in 1876. The Mon Journal t.15 index lists «Kotchoubey (prince Basile)», «Kotchoubey (prince Victor)» and «Kotchoubey (les)»; t.16 «Kotchoubey (prince Basile) : 128» and his wife «née Serran».

Princess Beatrice

[Research needed]

Princess Belocelsky

Russian princess, sister of Mlle Skobeleff who is marrying Grand Duke Nicolas in 1874.

Princess Belosselsky

A Russian princess of the Belosselsky (Beloselsky-Belozersky) family, whom Marie hears of in Nice at Easter 1875. The Mon Journal t.5 index has «Belosselsky (princesse), 28». She is not seen in the diary.

Princess de Sagan

[Research needed]

Princess Eristoff

Stub entry — needs research.

Princess Lise Troubetzkoy

Princess Elisabeth («Lise») Troubetzkoy (Troubetskoy), the Paris salon hostess of the 1870s and 1880s, friend of Thiers and of Gambetta; Marie calls her «l'ineffable Lise». The Mon Journal indexes list «Troubetskoy (princesse Lise)» (t.9), «Troubetzkoy (Elisabeth, princesse)» (t.11), «Troubeskoy (princesse Elisabeth)» (t.13) and «Troubeskoy (Mme Lise)» (t.14). Her daughter and the family are in [#Troubetzkoy](TROUBETZKOY.md).

Princess Marguerite

Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Dowager Duchess of Hamilton

Marie Amelie Elisabeth Karoline of Baden (1817–1888), youngest daughter of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Napoleon's adopted daughter. In 1843 she married William Hamilton, later 11th Duke of Hamilton (duke 1852, d. 1863); she was thereafter the Dowager Duchess. She converted to Catholicism in 1855 and died at Baden-Baden. Her children were William, 12th Duke of Hamilton (Marie's "duc"), Lord Charles Hamilton, and Mary, who married the future Albert I of Monaco (Wikipedia, "Princess Marie Amelie of Baden").

Princess Muliterno

- Type: people - aristocracy

Princess Nathalie Galitzine

The identification is confirmed by multiple raw carnet indices which explicitly state: "Bête: Galitzine (princesse)" and "Galitzine (Mme Nathalie, princesse), [Bête, Cunegunda]." Marie also uses "Cunegunda" as an alternate nickname -- an allusion to Voltaire's Candide, where Cunégonde is the naive heroine, used here with affectionate irony for the princess's simplicity: "la Bête, l'insipide Cunegunda" (014, Dec 11, 1873).

Princess of Monaco

Traveling companion of the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton to Constantinople in April 1874.

Princess Pignatelli

- Type: people - aristocracy

Princess Sara Karageorgevitch

Princess Sara (Sarka) Karageorgevitch, born Anastasijević (1836-1931), was the wife of Prince George Karageorgevitch (1827-1884), a member of the exiled Serbian dynasty, and the mother of [Alexis](../recurring/ALEXIS.md) (1859-1920) and [Bojidar](../recurring/BOJIDAR.md) (1862-1908). She was the daughter of Miša Anastasijević (1803-1885), a Serbian merchant and senator often called the "Danube Rothschild", who married his daughters to men of influence; her sister Persida married Jovan Marinović, later prime minister and from 1879 to 1889 the Serbian minister in Paris. This is why Marie can write, on 6 January 1883, that she watches a procession from the windows of "M. Marinovitch, ministre de Serbie et beau-frère de la princesse" (097.0362) and on 15 September 1883 that the young Marinovitch is "le fils du ministre de Serbie, beau-frère de la princesse Karageorgevitch" (101.0366). A younger daughter died in childhood; Bojidar told Marie that the princess's mind had been unsettled "depuis la mort de sa fille" (086.0081). Her dates and parentage are from English Wikipedia; sources give 1836 for her birth, and the older glossary page's "c. 1830" is not supported.

Princess Souvaroff

Princess Souvoroff

Princess Souvoroff

Princess Souvoroff (Suvorova), of the Russian princely family descended from Marshal Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800), one of the Russian ladies of Nice society; the tag is used across the diary from 1873.

Princesse

Princesse Brancoveanu

A princess of the Romanian Brâncoveanu (Bassaraba de Brancovan) family, seen by Marie at the Opéra on 15 January 1879 in the company of the portrait painter Nélie Jacquemart: «Mlle Jacquemard était avec la princesse Brâncoveanu et Mme Gavini qui la connaît m'a promis de me la faire connaître» (084.0029). The Mon Journal t.12 index has only «Brâncoveanu (princesse) : 198».

Princesse d Augri

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse de Beauharnais

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse de Bourbon

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse de Caraman

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse de Galles

- Type: people - mentioned

Princesse de la Trémoille (Tremolile)

The mother of the baron de Wykerslooth, husband of Jeanne de Ballore (see [JEANNE_DE_BALLORE](JEANNE_DE_BALLORE.md)); Marie names her «la princesse de la Tremoille» (067/1876-12-07, 067.1454: «Jeanne est pour le moment avec son effrayant mari et sa belle-mère la princesse de la Tremoille»), «la princesse de la Tremolile» (085/1879-05-18, 085.0094) and «la princesse de la Tremoille» (094/1882-02-14, 094.0262). Mon Journal t.9 index: «Tremolile (princesse de la) : 214» and t.14: «Tremoille (princesse, née Wykerslooth) : 288». The family name is La Trémoille, one of the oldest French noble houses; which princess is meant, and how she is the mother of a baron Wykerslooth (the t.14 index calls her «née Wykerslooth»), is not established by the diary or the indexes (a search found no confirmation of a La Trémoille princess born Wykerslooth). Treat the identification as open.

Princesse de Piedimonte

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse de Sagan

- Type: people - mentioned

Princesse Eristoff

Princess Nathalie (Natalia) Pavlovna Eristoff, née Bashkirtseff, the "bossue" (hunchback): the sister of Marie's father Constantin, i.e. Marie's paternal aunt, and the widow of Prince Emile Eristoff. Per the Mon Journal t.9 index: «Eristoff (Nathalie princesse), épouse, née Pavlona Bashkirtseff [La Bossue] tante de Marie Bashkirtseff», widow of «Eristoff (prince Emile) (époux de Nathalie Pavlona Bashkirtseff)».

Princesse Gerace

- Type: people - mentioned

Princesse Jeanne Bonaparte (marquise de Villeneuve)

Jeanne Bonaparte (1861–1910), daughter of Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (1815–1881) and of Éléonore-Justine Ruflin, a working woman he married late; in 1882 she married Christian, marquis de Villeneuve-Esclapon ([MARQUIS_DE_VILLENEUVE](MARQUIS_DE_VILLENEUVE.md)) (en.wikipedia «Jeanne Bonaparte»; «Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte»). Marie's circle calls her «la princesse Jeanne». Mon Journal indexes: t.15 «Jeanne (princesse) : 183, 199, 22[0], 222, 227», «Villeneuve (marquise de) : 144, 149, 162»; t.16 «Jeanne, princesse : 137, 146, 218».

Princesse Kotchoubey

Member of the prominent Kochubey (Kotchoubey) Russian aristocratic family. Marie encounters her at the skating rink at the Cercle de la Méditerranée in Nice.

princesse Marguerite

Princesse Massalsky

The wife of the Russian consul in Paris in 1883: "la princesse Massalsky, femme du consul Russe de Paris" (099.0332, 099/1883-05-03). Marie never meets her in the diary; she is a figure of gossip, the friend of Mme Mackay who, Marie believes, spreads the word that nobody from the Russian embassy visits the Bashkirtseffs. Mon Journal index: t.15 "Massalsky (princesse) : 241, 269, 278, 280"; t.16 "Massalsky (princesse) : 302". Her husband's first name is not given in the diary and is not researched here.

Princesse Mathilde

- Type: people - mentioned

Princesse Pierre Bonaparte

Éléonore-Justine Ruflin (b. c.1832), the working-class woman whom Prince Pierre Bonaparte ([PRINCE_PIERRE](PRINCE_PIERRE.md)) married, mother of Roland Bonaparte and of Jeanne, marquise de Villeneuve ([PRINCESSE_JEANNE_BONAPARTE](PRINCESSE_JEANNE_BONAPARTE.md)) (en.wikipedia «Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte»).

princesse Souvoroff

Princesse Souvorov

Princesse Tcherkassky

Wife of [Prince Tcherkassky](PRINCE_TCHERKASSKY.md), a young, ailing Russian princess at Schlangenbad in August 1875 (the Mon Journal t.5 index: «Tcherkassy (princesse), 243–244, 251, 254, 257–258, 261»). Marie says that, after five years of marriage, her husband «la déteste, la pauvre petite est très malade et dégoûtante avec ses tendresses» (039.0145).

Princesse Thyra

- Type: people - mentioned

princesse Troubetskoy

Princesse Ypsilanti

- Type: people - mentioned

Principi di Torchiaroli (Caracciolo branch)

- **House**: Caracciolo di Torchiarolo

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome, the state prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts that sent the winners to the Villa Medici in Rome; closed to women until 1903. From October 1877 Marie dreams of being «prix de Rome» (075.0131, 075.0172, 075.0295, 076.0238); she visits the competition entries at the École des Beaux-Arts (075.0375, 085.0578); Bastien-Lepage's second prize of 1875 is listed in 103.0702.

Professor Negre

Marie's drawing and painting master at Nice in spring 1875: the diary calls him «Nègre, le professeur du lycée». He is very probably Charles Nègre (1820–1880), the painter and pioneer photographer, born in Grasse, who settled in Nice in 1863 and taught drawing at the Lycée impérial there (Cleveland Museum of Art; visualartsdb.com; en.wikipedia «Charles Nègre») (confidence 0.85). The Mon Journal t.4 index reads «Nègre (professeur de dessin), 335» and t.5 «Nègre, professeur, 11». He is not the coachman Negre of t.10.

Promenade

The promenade was a central social ritual of 19th-century upper-class life — a daily or near-daily public appearance, whether on foot, on horseback, or in a carriage, along established routes at established hours. The purpose was as much social as recreational: to see and be seen, to exchange greetings, to display one's dress, equipage, and social connections.

Promenade des Anglais

The famous waterfront promenade in Nice, France, created in the 1820s by the English colony there. It became the social center of Nice's international community during the 19th century.

Promenade Music

- Type: culture - music

Property & Investments

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs about property and capital: the family estates in Poltava province, land sold or bought, houses and villas owned, rented or leased, inheritance and wills, dowries, shares, bonds, capital placed to yield a *rente*, and quarrels or lawsuits over any of these. It is about wealth that is held, as distinct from [Money](MONEY.md), which is about money that is spent, owed, lost or counted.

Property: family

This tag marks Property paragraphs about Marie's own property or her family's: the Babanine and Bashkirtseff estates, grandfather's and papa's wills, Marie's dowry and capital, the family's lawsuits over land. It is a qualifier of [Property](PROPERTY.md): every paragraph that carries it also carries the Property tag, and the tagging criteria live there.

Property: others

This tag marks Property paragraphs about somebody else's property, or property in general: a suitor's estates, an heiress's fortune, a friend's villa, the sale of another person's land or stable. It is a qualifier of [Property](PROPERTY.md): every paragraph that carries it also carries the Property tag, and the tagging criteria live there.

Provence

- Type: places - regions

Providence

[Research needed]

Prusse

- Type: places - countries

Prussiens

- Type: people - mentioned

Psyche

- Type: people - mentioned

Putiphar

- Type: people - mentioned

Pygmalion

In Greek and Roman myth the sculptor of Cyprus who falls in love with the statue he carves and whom Aphrodite brings to life (Ovid, *Metamorphoses* X; en.wikipedia «Pygmalion (mythology)»).