Poznámky
Fiacre: a hired horse-drawn cab — a public conveyance, not a private carriage. ↩
"Posé hamiltonnement": Marie's coinage — an adverb derived from the Duke of Hamilton's name, meaning "composed in the manner of Hamilton" — her idealized model of aristocratic self-possession. The neologism is so distinctive it must be translated with a gloss rather than domesticated away. ↩
"Battre froid": literally "to beat cold" — the French idiom for giving someone the cold shoulder. ↩
"Le Surprenant*": the Surprising One — Marie's asterisked code name for Audiffret in this period of the diary. ↩
"Tournant le Mai": a local Niçois tradition of maypole-dancing and songs associated with May Day celebrations. ↩
Horace (65–8 BCE) and Tibullus (c.55–19 BCE): Roman lyric poets. Marie reads them in bilingual Latin–French editions to practise her Latin. ↩
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (1743–1795): famous adventurer and occultist who claimed to have lived multiple past lives and to possess supernatural powers. Marie uses him as a witty model for her own sense of accumulated worldly experience. ↩
Cocottes: fashionable kept women or courtesans of the Second Empire and early Third Republic. ↩
A cryptic word-list: Mari (husband), femme (wife), duc (duke — Hamilton), amour (love), Gioia (the Duke of Hamilton's mistress; Italian for "joy"). Possibly keyword prompts for future diary entries, or a memory aid. The asterisk follows the project convention for asterisked names. ↩
Gloriae cupiditate: Latin — "By desire for glory" or "Driven by ambition for fame." A classical phrase (cf. cupido gloriae in Cicero and Sallust). Marie uses it as a closing motto for the carnet. ↩
Written in English in the original: His Grace the Duke of Hamilton — Marie's obsessive reference to her idealized, unattainable aristocratic standard. ↩