F

F. de Marcuard

Fabbricatore

- Type: people - mentioned

Facciotti (singing master, Rome)

The Italian singing master who starts Marie's training in January 1876: "un bonhomme sévère et juste, bien qu'italien".

Fai or Fay

The best pastry chef and confectioner in Nice, located on Avenue de la Gare.

Faith & Prayer

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie discusses religion, prayer, God, faith, doubt, religious ritual, and spiritual matters. It is one of the diary's recurring themes, reflecting how thoroughly religious life permeated Marie's existence -- not as conventional piety, but as a passionate, transactional, deeply personal dialogue with the divine that evolved from a girl's bargaining prayers to a dying woman's desperate pleas for healing.

Faleyeff

The Faleyeff family, with a Russian name (Mon Journal indexes: «Faleyeff (les)», t.15 pp.178, 215, 234, 270, 276; t.16 pp.42, 55, 87, 197; «Faleyeff (Mme)» p.42; «Faleyeff (Mlle)» pp.42, 184), part of Marie's Paris social circle in 1883–84, with a mother and a daughter.

Falguiere

Alexandre Falguière (1831–1900), French sculptor (and painter), professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, a leading figure of the Salon (en.wikipedia «Alexandre Falguière»). Marie writes the name in the French form.

Famille Coube

Family Life

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs about relations inside the household and the wider family: Maman's moods, Dina, Paul, the aunt, grandfather, the separated father and his side of the family. It is about the scenes, quarrels, affections and judgments that make up family life, not merely about who was present.

Fanny Lear

"Fanny Lear" was the literary pseudonym of Harriet Clarissima Ely Blackford (c. 1848–1886), an American adventuress and courtesan born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is notorious as the mistress of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia (1850–1918), nephew of Tsar Alexander II, and as the central figure in the 1874 St. Petersburg diamond-theft scandal. She published a candid memoir about her Russian adventures under her pen name.

Farot

- Type: people - mentioned

Father Levitsky

Russian Orthodox priest who will perform the blessing ceremony for the Bashkirtseff's new villa.

Faubourg Saint-Germain

[Research needed]

faubourg Saint-Honore

- Type: places - streets

Faudoas

Faure (Jean-Baptiste Faure)

In Nice in January-February 1877 Marie hears **Jean-Baptiste Faure** (1830-1914), the most celebrated French baritone of the period, star of the Paris Opéra and famous for his Méphistophélès in Gounod's *Faust*. Kernberger (2013) identifies the singer of these entries as "presumably Jean-Baptiste Faure". Marie hears him in Donizetti's *La Favorite* on 27 January 1877 («sa voix semble une voix morte», 068.0853) and in *Faust* on 2 February 1877, when she is «émerveillée, charmée, en adoration devant le jeu, le chant et la figure de Faure ... c'était Satan lui-même» (068.0925) and would give her pearl necklace («fausses») to whoever brought him to her (068.0933).

Faust (Goethe)

*Faust* is the verse drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) on the scholar who sells his soul to Mephistopheles. Part One (*Der Tragödie erster Teil*) was published in 1808 and contains the Gretchen (Marguerite) tragedy; Part Two appeared posthumously in 1832 (Wikipedia, "Faust, Part One"). In Marie's France the work was known largely through Gérard de Nerval's French translation and, above all, through Gounod's opera *Faust* (1859), which compresses the Gretchen story and which Marie knows far better than the drama.

Faust (Gounod)

*Faust* is a grand opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, drawn from Carré's play *Faust et Marguerite* and loosely from Part One of Goethe's *Faust*. It opened at the Théâtre Lyrique, Boulevard du Temple, Paris, on 19 March 1859. For its entry into the Paris Opéra in 1869 Gounod replaced the spoken dialogue by sung recitatives and added a ballet, and it became the most frequently performed opera at that house (Wikipedia, "Faust (opera)"). The King of Thule ballad (Act II, "Il était un roi de Thulé"), Marguerite's jewel song and the "Salut! demeure" cavatina are its best-known numbers.

Fayet

Fedoroff

Russian expatriate in Nice who died suddenly while playing cards.

Fedus

Felicia Ruys

- Type: people - mentioned

Felicie

Félicie, the «fidèle femme de chambre» of Sarah Bernhardt (Mon Journal t.14 index: «Félicie (femme de chambre de Sarha Berhnardt): 302»).

Felix Ribeyre

- Type: people - mentioned

Félix Saïd

Félix Saïd was a young Black servant whom the Bashkirtseffs brought from Nice to Paris in April 1882: «Nous avons amené de Nice un nègre nommé Felix Saïd, qui fait sensation» (094.0437, 23 April 1882, on the day's outing to the Bois de Boulogne). The Mon Journal t.14 index lists him as «Saïd Felix, domestique : 312». This is the only time the diary names him.

Feminism

**Retired.** This misfiled concept stub is retired in favour of the theme [Women's Condition](../../culture/themes/WOMEN.md). The 2026 tag audit no longer assigns it; existing tags are removed carnet by carnet, and the file is kept as a retired redirect so old links keep working (no tag points here as of 2026-10-03).

Femme lisant à l'angle d'un piano

*Femme lisant à l'angle d'un piano* is a drawing — crayon, charcoal, *frotté* and *gratté*, 24,6 × 19,2 cm on a mount of 53 × 40 cm — in the **Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris**, inv. **PPD929**. It was given by the artist's mother in **1907**, five years after she gave the same museum *La Parisienne*.

Femme orientale

*Femme orientale* (oil on canvas, 1882) is in the **Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice** — one of three Bashkirtseff paintings there, alongside the *Autoportrait à la palette* and the portrait of her brother Paul. The Nice group came to the city through the artist's mother.

Fenelon

An unidentified guest of the Bashkirtseffs in Paris in 1879: «Gaedes, Fénelon, Moralès, caricatures. Hecht.» (086.0152, 086/1879-08-28) and «tous ces gens sont venus ce soir, Da Costa, Fénelon, Alexis, Blanc, Hecht, le prêtre russe» (086.0256, 086/1879-09-11). The Mon Journal t.13 index files both pages (84, 95) under «Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Mothe) Prélat», the archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715). That cannot be right for a visitor; the index is mistaken here.

Fenia

Servant in the Howard household.

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805–1894) was the French diplomat and entrepreneur chiefly responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal (opened 1869). In 1880 he was 74 years old and at the height of his celebrity as the hero of Suez; he had just launched the disastrous Panama Canal project (excavation began 1881). He married his second wife, Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard (1848–1909), in November 1869. In the diary entry of 29 April 1880, "Monsieur et Madame de Lesseps" leave their calling card at Marie's apartment — presumably Ferdinand and Hélène, visiting as part of the fashionable Paris social circuit.

Ferrand

- Type: people - mentioned

Ferrara

A music dealer of Nice (Mon Journal t.4 index: «Ferrara, magasin de musique, 170»). On 1874-10-06 (024.0249), after shopping in town for the house: «après chez le marchand de musique Ferrara, pendant que je regardais son étalage Emile d'Audiffret nous traversa la rue et alla rejoindre Saëtone qui nous regardait déjà depuis quelques minutes au coin de la rue». No first name or address was found.

Ferry

Ferry appears to be a bootmaker or shoe merchant in Nice during 1873. He is mentioned briefly in Marie Bashkirtseff's September 18, 1873 diary entry when she comments on the quality of boots she is wearing.

Fiacre

A fiacre was a horse-drawn hackney carriage available for hire on the streets of Paris and other French cities — the 19th-century equivalent of a taxi. The name derives from the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre in Paris, where the first carriages for hire were stationed in 1640.

Fidiere

M. Fidière, a pupil at Julian's atelier (Mon Journal t.14 index: «Fidière (M.), élève à l'atelier Julian: 109»), whom Marie calls «un jeune homme d'en bas» (a young man from the men's studio downstairs). On 1881-04-01 (091.0406), after the punch at the studio: «Bojidar sans que je le lui demande s'est informé chez Fidière ... et assure que j'ai le *numéro 2*» for her picture at the Salon; a footnote explains that the jury's number (1, 2 or 3) governed the hanging. No first name was found; he may be the sculptor Octave Fidière, but no source for that was found. See [#Julian](../../places/schools/JULIAN.md).

Figaro

Filarmonica

Filimonoff

Russian couple (M. et Mme Filimonoff) who request to hear Marie sing at the Howard dance.

Filippini

[Research needed]

Filippini (student of the Atelier Julian)

- **29 November 1882** (097.0166): in the women's studio, «Il n'y a pas une élève intéressante sauf Filippini et encore».

Finland Gulf

The arm of the Baltic on which St Petersburg lies (Wikipedia, «Gulf of Finland»). Marie sees it on a single excursion to the [Islands](THE_ISLANDS.md) on 7 August 1876 (064.0447, Petersburg): «Après dîner, nous allâmes aux Iles et à la pointe de laquelle on admire le coucher du soleil sur le golfe de Finlande.» She adds that they arrived after sunset and that it was cold for July.

Fio

- Type: people - mentioned

Fiouloulou (Galula)

Fiste

Fiste, a singer of the opera company at Nice in the 1874–75 season (Mon Journal t.4 index: «Fiste (M.), chanteur, 187»). On 1874-10-27 (025.0005), at the season's opening: «La nouvelle Laffite a été hissed à sa première chanson. Il n'y a que Fiste, mais Fiste est seul. Les choristes et les figurantes sont hideuses ...» So Marie rates him the only good performer of the evening. No first name, voice type or the work performed was found. See [#Nice Opera](../../places/theaters/OPERA_NICE.md).

Fitz-James (family)

The ducal family of Fitz-James, as a group or by birth name. In the diary the most important member is the dowager duchess, Marie's patroness of 1880-84: see [Duchesse de Fitz-James](DUCHESSE_DE_FITZ_JAMES.md). No duc de Fitz-James appears in person. This file is for the passages that name the family rather than the duchess:

Flamarande (George Sand)

A late novel by [George Sand](GEORGE_SAND.md), told in the first person by Charles, who enters the service of the comte de Flamarande as valet de chambre and is drawn into the count's revenge on his young wife and the fate of her son. Its continuation is *Les Deux Frères*; both were issued in book form by Calmann Lévy (the copies found are an 1877 "septième édition" of *Flamarande* and an 1878 edition of *Les Deux Frères*, whose narrator is again Charles). The first-publication date usually given for both is 1875; it was not confirmed for this entry.

Fleury

- Type: people - mentioned

Florence (Firenze)

Florence (Firenze), the capital of Tuscany, occupies a singular position in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary -- evolving from a teenage dream of artistic escape into the stage for one of her most intense emotional dramas. Marie first mentions Florence on April 30, 1873, when the fourteen-year-old lists it alongside Rome and Naples as the cities where she could "study painting, singing, music" -- everything impossible in Nice (004.0236). She visited twice: five days in September 1875 for the Michelangelo quatercentenary (carnet 043), and roughly ten days in May 1877 to stalk the family of her obsession, Alessandro de Larderei (carnet 071). Throughout the diary, Florence functions as both an art-historical reference point and the spiritual home of "ma famille" -- Marie's ironic term for the Larderei clan.

Florence Foster

Florence Lacon (née Foster)

Florence Foster, an English girl Marie has known since the summer of 1874 at Ostend (where the Foster family appears often, carnets 023–028; [FOSTER](FOSTER.md)) and with whom she corresponds in 1877 («Voici une lettre de Foster», 072.0407). In early 1878 she married M. Lacon, «futur lord Lacon je crois» (080.0305, 27 May 1878: «Miss Foster, mariée depuis trois mois à M. Lacon»). The Mon Journal indexes: t.11 «Lacon (Mme Florence), née Foster : 259-261, 268»; t.12 «Lacon (Mme Florence), née Foster [Flo]»; t.13 «Lacon (Mme Florence, née Foster) : 18, 22, 24»; her brother «Foster (Arthur)» (t.11, t.12).

Florentin

- Type: people - mentioned

Flores

M. Florès, an avoué (solicitor of the Nice courts) engaged by the family's circle (Mon Journal t.4 index: «Flores (M.), avoué, 176»). On 1874-10-12 (024.0295), a day Marie waits for the carriage that Georges keeps till half past six, Georges «au milieu du dîner nous amena l'avoué Florès qui eut le bon esprit de s'en aller, et avec lequel il was drinking toute la journée.» The first name and the matter he was handling for the family are not stated.

Florida

- Type: people - mentioned

Foliero

A horse, not a person: on 1874-06-01 (020.0034) Marie says «Je vais monter Foliero à M. Baltazzi, nous n'avons pas nos chevaux ici et je monte les chevaux de ce monsieur. Maman n'a pas peur de me laisser avec lui, il monte très bien.» Foliero is the mount lent by M. Baltazzi, whom she rides with in Paris that June; the horse's breed and owner's first name are not given. See the move/retire list.

Folies Dramatiques

- Type: people - mentioned

Folies Niçoises

The Folies Niçoises was an entertainment venue in Nice in the early 1870s, described by Marie as "ce nouveau théâtre" (the new theatre) and characterized by Walitsky as a "café" where "il n'y a que des... et des paysans" (only riff-raff and peasants) and where people smoked. Marie and her family initially decide not to go because it is "pas comme il faut" (not proper), but curiosity wins out and they attend for five minutes before leaving — confirming it was indeed "vraiment pas convenable" (truly not appropriate).

Folies-Bergère

A famous Parisian music hall opened in 1869 on rue Richer (9th arrondissement). By 1881, it was one of Paris's most popular entertainment venues, featuring variety shows, operettas, and spectacles.

Folies-Julian

- Type: people - mentioned

Fontaine

An actress at the French Theater in Nice. Marie attended her benefit performance on May 2, 1873.

Fontaine de Trevi

- Type: people - mentioned

Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau is a town 55 km southeast of Paris, famous for its royal palace and surrounding forest. For Marie Bashkirtseff, Fontainebleau represented both a historical landmark and a popular excursion destination from Paris. The Chateau de Fontainebleau, with its centuries of royal art collections, and the surrounding forest, beloved by the Barbizon school of painters, made it a site of particular interest for an aspiring artist.

Fontarabie

Fuenterrabía, now Hondarribia: the Spanish town on the French border at the mouth of the Bidasoa (source footnote at 093.0141). Marie spells it «Fontarabie» (French). She makes a day trip from Biarritz on 27 September 1881.

Food & Eating

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie mentions food, meals, dining, restaurants, or culinary topics. Food references in the diary reveal social customs, family dynamics, class indicators, and Marie's own relationship with eating and appearance.

Forchhammer

- Type: people - mentioned

Fortunata

Fortunata, an artist's model, listed in the Mon Journal t.14 index as «Fortunata, modèle à l'atelier Julian: 184». On 1881-08-11 (092.0377), Marie, working at Passy on her large picture, has taken against everything she starts: «D'abord Fortunata que j'ai renvoyée en lui payant six séances pour rien; puis c'est le tableau duquel j'étais folle ... Julian avait dit qu'il fallait modifier, améliorer la composition et cela m'a suffi pour que je ne sache plus quoi faire.» So she posed for Marie for six sittings and was dismissed. No surname found.

Fortuné

Servant in the Bashkirtseff household responsible for Marie's wardrobe.

Foster family

An English family Marie meets at Ostend in August 1874 (carnets 023–028: «les gentils Foster», several sons including «Foster 2» who dances with her, a daughter, and «le grand chien des Foster»). The daughter Florence becomes Marie's correspondent and, from 1878, Mme Lacon ([FLORENCE_LACON](FLORENCE_LACON.md)); her brother Arthur Foster («celui du chien», 080.0305; t.11 index «Foster (Arthur) : 259, 260, 263-265») is in Paris with the Lacons in May–June 1878 (080.0322, 080.0360, 080.0373, 080.0383).

Foster Family

Foster I

Fouquet

Nicolas Fouquet (1615–1680), Louis XIV's superintendent of finances, whose château of Vaux-le-Vicomte and the lavish fête given there on 17 August 1661 preceded his arrest at Nantes in September 1661 (Wikipedia, «Vaux-le-Vicomte»). He is not a person in Marie's life but a comparison: on 1875-08-11 (038.0265), told by a Worth saleswoman of the riches of the couturier's house at Suresnes, she writes «comme on disait Vaux à M. Fouquet, on dit Suresnes à M. Worth». Worth's villa at Suresnes was built in 1865–69 (Wikipedia and Suresnes street history, as cited in the RSR note on the paragraph; a reader footnote there explains the allusion). See [#Worth](WORTH.md).

Fourcaud

Louis de Fourcaud (1851–1914), French art critic, writing for *Le Gaulois* for most of his career (en.wikipedia «Louis de Fourcaud»); the Mon Journal t.16 index has «Fourcaud (M.), journaliste: 185-186».

Fourmi

M. Fourmi, a horse dealer and hirer (marchand de chevaux, loueur) of the avenue Marbeuf in Paris (Mon Journal t.4 index «Fourmi (M.), marchand de chevaux, 157»). On 1874-09-25 (024.0112), on the family's search for a horse for Marie: «Après nous allons chez Fourmi, dans l'avenue Marbeuf ... Il n'a rien de bon, mais cela me fait du bien d'aller dans les écuries.» She goes on to Maurice's, where she finds a horse she likes. First name not found.

Fournier

[Research needed]

Fra Buonaventura

- Type: people - mentioned

Fragonard

- Type: people - mentioned

Francais

France

[Research needed]

Franceschi

- Type: people - mentioned

Francesco

- Type: people - mentioned

Francesco de Balzorano

Count Francesco («Franz», once «François») de Balzorano, a rich young Neapolitan nobleman whom Marie knows by sight at the Naples Skating and from the stories told about him in March 1877; the hero of the love story of [Giselle van Baeker](./GISELLE.md), whom he married in August 1877. Mon Journal t.10 index: «Balzorano (Franz, comte de)»; t.11 index: «Balzorano (Francesco comte) : 6, 13, 219». Kernberger (2013, glossary): «Balzorano, Count Francesco de». The name is also printed «Balsorano» (Neapolitan family Lefebvre di Balsorano); Marie writes it Balzorano, Balsorano (075.0094) and Balzarono (079.0511).

Francesco de Balzorano

Francesco Paolo Tosti

Italian composer of songs and singing teacher, born in Ortona; in the 1870s a favourite of Roman society and singing master to Princess Margherita of Savoy; later settled in London, singing master to the royal family, knighted in 1908 (Wikipedia, "Francesco Paolo Tosti"). Kernberger (2013, glossary): "Tosti, Francesco Paolo: composer and singing teacher (1846-1916)".

Francfort

- Type: places - cities

Francia

Person who causes Marie to blush when entering Rumpelmayer's.

Francine

Mme Francine, a couturière (dressmaker) in Vienna: Mon Journal t.1 index, «Francine (Mme), couturière» (pp. 124, 248, 251). Marie and her aunt use her during the Vienna trip for the 1873 World Exhibition, and the dress made there is later the model for a copy in Nice.

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

The Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870 – May 10, 1871) was a conflict between France (under Napoleon III's Second Empire) and Prussia, backed by the North German Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria. The thorough Prussian and German victory brought about the final unification of the German Empire under King William I of Prussia and marked the downfall of Napoleon III and the end of the Second French Empire, which was replaced by the Third Republic.

François Coppée

François Coppée (Paris, 1842–1908) was a poet and dramatist of the Parnassian generation, popular for his verse of humble Parisian life. His one-act verse play *Le Passant* (Odéon, 1869) made the young Sarah Bernhardt famous; his five-act verse drama *Severo Torelli* opened at the Odéon on 21 November 1883. He was archivist of the Comédie-Française from 1878 and was elected to the Académie française in 1884 (en.wikipedia «François Coppée»; Catholic Encyclopedia «François Coppée»; first edition of *Severo Torelli*, Lemerre 1884, as listed by booksellers). The t.16 index of Mon Journal gives «Coppée (François), écrivain : 210, 215-217, 221».

François Malausséna

François Malausséna, lawyer (avocat) of Nice, educated at the Jesuit college of Nice and the University of Turin (doctorate in law). Last syndic of Nice under the Kingdom of Sardinia; at first opposed to the annexation of Nice to France (1860), he rallied to it and was mayor of Nice from January 1861 to September 1870 (fr.wikipedia, "François Malausséna"; "Liste des maires de Nice"). Local heritage pages on the Malausséna birthplace at Levens give him as born in Levens in 1814 and dead in 1882. Kernberger (2013, glossary): "Malaussena: Marie's family's attorney in Nice".

Franz

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria from 1848 and King of Hungary from 1867 (Wikipedia, "Franz Joseph I of Austria"). Host of the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition and of the Shah of Persia's state visit that summer.

Franz Liszt (abbé Liszt)

The composer-pianist, cited by Marie as the standard of virtuosity and of men who "ont empoigné leur monde".

French

French is Marie Bashkirtseff's primary language of writing and thought. All 107 carnets of the diary, spanning from January 1873 to October 1884, are written predominantly in French. Of the approximately 3,800 diary entries, French is the constant substrate -- the language Marie reaches for by default, the language in which she argues with God, fantasizes about fame, anatomizes her own character, and records the texture of daily life. The #French tag appears in 1,273 paragraphs across the project, but this number is deceptive: it marks only those paragraphs where French co-occurs with another language. In reality, virtually every paragraph in the diary is French.

French Theater in Nice

The French Theater in Nice (Théâtre Français de Nice) was an important cultural venue in Nice during the 1870s. It hosted French-language theatrical productions, including both classical plays and contemporary comedies. The theater served as a social gathering place for the local elite and foreign visitors, particularly the Russian expatriate community that had established itself in Nice.

Frere

Friedlander

The Friedlanders, friends of the Howards in Nice: Dr Friedlander, who entertains the children with conjuring tricks, and his wife, «une très gentille vieille dame» (the Mon Journal indexes do not list them under this name). They appear in Marie's English circle of 1873–74:

Friedrich de Marcuard

Friedrich ("F.") de Marcuard was a Swiss gentleman from the patrician Marcuard banking family of Berne, a friend of [Count Alessandro de Larderel](LARDEREL.md), and one of the most enduring secondary figures in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary. Introduced to Marie in Naples on March 29, 1877, he remained a loyal correspondent and social companion for over two years. He was simultaneously Marie's platonic confidant, a devoted admirer of her cousin [Dina](../core/DINA.md), and eventually, by late 1878, a suitor whom Marie herself deflected with a joke.

Fritz

- Type: people - mentioned

Fritz Meyer

«le gros Fritz Meyer», a man of Paris society whom Marie counts among her "friends" when she leaves Paris on 1874-06-22 (020.0380): «Lambertye, Rothschild, Wittgenstein, Chimay, Tichkevitch et même le gros Fritz Meyer; voilà mes amis. Cependant deux d'entre eux sont très farouches et je ne peux les appeler ainsi.» The Mon Journal t.3 index has «Meyer (Fritz), Italien, 41, 203, 245» (an Italian). Nothing more about him was found.

Fritz sommelier

- Type: people - mentioned

Froman

A social acquaintance who appears among visitors to Marie's home on 29 May 1880: "Gavini, Berthe, Antoine, d'Alt, Froman, Moraes, Bailleul, Soutzo." The Mon Journal t.13 index has «Froman (M.): 262» (the page of this passage). He is one of the callers of 29 May 1880; first name and profession were not found.

Frou-Frou

*Frou-Frou* is a play in five acts by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, first performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase, Paris, on 30 October 1869. Unlike nearly all the work of the pair it is not a comedy but a serious drama; contemporaries credited much of its success to Aimée Desclée, who created the part of Gilberte (Wikipédia fr, "Frou-Frou (comédie)"; Arthur Heulhard, *Le Courrier de l'art*, 27 September 1883, cited there). Gilberte, nicknamed "Frou-Frou" for the rustle of her silk, is a spoilt, frivolous young woman. The part was later played by Sarah Bernhardt (Porte-Saint-Martin, 1888) and by Marsy at the Comédie-Française (1892) (same source). The title also gave French the word *frou-frou*.

Funeral March (Beethoven)

Marie never says which Beethoven march she means. Two famous candidates exist: the *Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe*, third movement of the Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 (composed 1800-01; Source: Wikipedia, "Piano Sonata No. 12 (Beethoven)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._12_(Beethoven)), and the "Marcia funebre" of the *Eroica* Symphony (1803-04), which is an orchestral piece and was commonly played in piano arrangements. Because Marie plays and wants to learn it at the piano (099.0151, 099.0226), the sonata march is the more likely candidate, but this is an inference. The IMSLP link is to the sonata only.

Funeral March (Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35)

The third movement ("Marche funèbre") of Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, composed 1837-1839 and published in 1840; the march itself is dated to 1837 by many scholars. The sonata was completed at George Sand's house in Nohant. (Source: Wikipedia, "Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._2_(Chopin).) Public domain. See also the composer's entry [CHOPIN](../../people/mentioned/CHOPIN.md).

Furstenberg

The young Prince Charles (Karl) of Fürstenberg, a German, in Nice with his parents in the winters of 1873-74 and 1874-75. The Mon Journal t.3 index separates «Furstenberg (prince), 58-59, 82, 93, 116, 119, 127, 135-136» (the father, «son espèce de tuteur [Entre les lignes: son père que je prenais pour un gouverneur]», 016.0156), «Furstenberg (Mme), 93, 116, 119» and «Furstenberg (prince Charles) fils, 30, 34, 39, 58-60, 82, 93-94, 105, 116, 121, 132, 136». Marie also calls the son «le petit», «le petit Charles», «mon Charles» and «mon filleul» (016.0377, 017.0108, 017.0215, 017.0365, 017.0479). Which branch of the Fürstenberg family he belongs to was not established.

Fusco

[Research needed]