Mme Angel

Overview

Mme Angel, a Russian lady of thirty-five whom Marie meets at Nice in autumn 1874 and nicknames «Ange» (Angel in French) because «Ange a la voix et le caractère plutôt d'un hussard que d'un ange» (025.0108). Mon Journal t.4 index: «Angel (Mme): [Ange], 180–185, 187–189, 192, 196…»; «Angel (M.), 202, 204, 209» for her husband; also t.3 pp.183, 199 and t.5 pp.28, 32, 82, 96.

Relevance to Marie

Stub replaced. Index references from t.3–t.5. She is probably the same as the stub entry ANGEL (nickname «Ange»). 019.0134 is tagged with the stub ANGEL rather than MME_ANGEL (same woman, 019.0136 is tagged MME_ANGEL): merge ANGEL → MME_ANGEL.

References in Diary

Marie describes her at 024.0362: «une dame russe âgée de trente-cinq ans, ayant des cheveux magnifiques, et belle… jolie, élégante et a de l'esprit, de plus de la sympathie pour moi»; she is musician and painter (024.0363), and says she prefers Marie to Paul, at which Papa is disappointed. Marie first meets her on 6 May 1874, when the princess presents her at a wedding in church (019.0134, 019.0136: «Mme Angel se retournant: N'écoutez pas ça, ce sera bien ainsi»). In Nice she is at the Bashkirtseffs' almost daily in October–November 1874: piano duets with Dina (024.0415), the theatre in the family box (024.0392), the Thiers crowd (025.0021), dinners at her place with the Pelikans (025.0248, 025.0252; Marie meets Pelikan's daughter Zoé at her place, 025.0123). Her husband arrives on 8 November (025.0171). In April 1875 she returns from Petersburg, where she lost her mother (031.0335, 032.0026), and is with the family in May (033.0157, 033.0375).

Merged entry ANGEL

The entry ANGEL (surname only) held five paragraphs, now tagged here: the first meeting at the wedding of Mme Warvatzi's niece, «la princesse me présenta à Mme Angel» (019.0134, 6 May 1874); the call of 23 May 1874, when she leaves next day «avec Bidiger» and the Bashkirtseffs take her apartment in the hotel (019.0323); and three paragraphs of November 1874 that also concern her husband: «Le mari d'Ange est arrivé et ils nous firent une visite» (025.0171), «M. Angel» at the small tea of 11 November (025.0201), «Ange avec son mari» at lunch on 16 November (025.0252). The husband has his own entry, #M. Angel.