Moreau Family

Overview

A mother, daughter and son whom Marie meets at Mont-Dore in July 1880 and who then visit in Paris in 1880–1881. «Madame Moreau (de chez la Mouzay) est ici avec sa fille qui me servira de modèle» (089.0197, 20 July 1880); «La mère est commune et a un accent chilien-bordelais ! La fille est une demoiselle soigneuse et élégante» (089.0202); «le fils Moreau que sa mère croit ravissant va arriver» (089.0239). In Paris «la petite Moreau» offers to bring Marie to a friend of Gambetta's (090.0515–0516), and Marie dismisses the Moreau house with the baccarat players of the Bailleul (091.0018).

The Mon Journal indexes: t.13 «Moreau (Mme) : 148, 314, 333», «Moreau (Mlle, fille de la précédente)», «Moreau M., fils» and «Moreau (Les)»; t.14 «Moreau (Les) famille du peintre : 23, 34, 54, 73, 131».

Identity uncertain

We are not sure who this family is. The t.14 index calls them «famille du peintre», but the diary never names a painter among them, and the t.13 index, which covers the Mont-Dore pages, says nothing of the kind; which painter Moreau the index means (if any) was not found. If you can identify this family, we would be glad to hear from you.

Not this entry

«la Moreau» of November 1876, the card-reader who tells Marie's fortune (067.1026, 067.1117, 067.1325), is a different woman; those three paragraphs carry this tag by mistake (listed for retagging).

References in Diary

089.0197, 089.0202, 089.0239, 089.0255, 089.0343, 089.0354, 089.0396, 089.0401 (Mont-Dore, July–August 1880); 089.0469, 089.0486 (September 1880); 090.0198, 090.0309, 090.0515, 090.0516; 091.0018, 091.0621.