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The Chiaia, a fashionable seafront promenade in Naples. ↩
Vulgo (Latin): commonly known as, in ordinary parlance. ↩
Étincelle («Spark»): the pen name of Marie Biard de Peyronny, society columnist of Le Figaro (see 19 March 1881). ↩
Cailloux du Rhin: literally "Rhine pebbles" — paste rhinestones, fashionable costume jewellery of the period. ↩
Cocottes: courtesans or kept women of the demi-monde. ↩
A pun: conservateur means both "curator" (of a museum) and "one who preserves" — applied here to Janvier as the keeper of Mme de Marcilly's crumbling edifice. ↩
Gavini — Denis Gavini, the Corsican, Adeline Gavini's husband; Marie's "le père Gavini" ("old Gavini"). ↩
Pas empoté: «not clumsy», Gavini's verdict on the Courbets. ↩