Les cireurs de bottes de Nice

Overview

Not real boot-blacks: «les cireurs de bottes de la ville de Nice» is the signature of two prank letters Marie wrote on 13 February 1876, one to Emile d'Audiffret («Monseigneur !») and one to his friend Saëtone, in which the boot-blacks of Nice beg him to give up his supposed plan for «un établissement de cirage de bottes à vapeur dans sa grande salle à manger». Part of the same campaign as MOINES_DE_CIMIEZ.

References in Diary

• 1876-02-13: struck first draft signed «Les cireurs de bottes de la ville de Nice» (054.0058); letter to Audiffret, «la quantité de cireurs que vous allez faire mourir de faim» (054.0060), signed (054.0063); letter to Saëtone, «Tous les cireurs de la ville de Nice» (054.0066), signed «Les cireurs, etc.» (054.0070)
• 1876-04-29: she reads Olga «les lettres des moines et des cireurs» (059.0627)

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