Poznámky
Père Lachaise: the famous Paris cemetery in the 20th arrondissement, where Gambetta was buried. The day after the public funeral, crowds continued to gather there. ↩
The newspaper section headlines (La maladie et la mort de Gambetta etc.): Marie lists the sub-headings of newspaper special coverage as a kind of litany — the itemisation of grief by the press machine. ↩
Four thousand francs: the sum she sent Tony as payment for the portrait (noted in the 24 December entry). In the 1880s, four thousand francs represented perhaps four to six months' salary for a comfortable bourgeois employee. ↩
Shoulders lacking atmosphere (manquant d'enveloppe): a technical painter's term — enveloppe means the atmospheric haze or gradation that integrates a figure into its background. Without it, the figure looks pasted on. Marie uses it with professional precision even in the middle of her indignant complaint. ↩