H

- Type: people - mentioned

Halfweg

**Halfweg** is the Dutch village between Haarlem and Amsterdam, in North Holland. In the diary it is the place from which Jeanne Suermondt writes (letter of 14 May 1878).

Hall

- Type: people - mentioned

Hamille

[Research needed]

Hamilton

Hamilton Island

- Type: people - mentioned

Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas)

*Hamlet* is an opera in five acts by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) to a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, after Shakespeare, first performed at the Opéra (salle Le Peletier), Paris, on 9 March 1868. It was the last work created in the Le Peletier house before the Palais Garnier opened. It is a free adaptation rather than a faithful one, in the grand-opéra manner; its best-known number is Ophélie's mad scene (Act IV). It was Thomas's great success alongside *Mignon* (1866), and was taken up in London (1870), Leipzig, Budapest, Brussels, New York, St Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna within five years (Wikipédia fr, "Hamlet (opéra)"; Wikipedia en, "Hamlet (opera)").

Hamontoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Hanner

- Type: people - mentioned

Hans

- Type: people - mentioned

Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543), German painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance, active in Basel and at the court of Henry VIII in London; best known for his portraits (Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves). The Louvre has several of them, among them the *Erasmus* and the *Anne of Cleves*. Source: Wikipedia, "Hans Holbein the Younger".

Haristoff

A wealthy family at Spa in the summer of 1874: M. and Mme Haristoff, the wife of Brazilian origin, with their son and a retinue. The Mon Journal t.4 index lists «Haristoff (M.)», «Haristoff (Mme), d'origine brésilienne» and «Haristoff (M. fils)». Marie hears of them as newly arrived (021.0086, 9 July), says «La femme est brésilienne, et mène avec elle deux ou trois dames et le même nombre de messieurs ... les Haristoff sont des millionnaires» (021.0087), and lumps them as «tout le bataclan Haristoff» (022.0184, 28 July; her word for a clique seen together, noting «Ils ont des hommes bien, dans ce bataclan»).

Harlamoff

- Type: people - mentioned

Harman

A milliner (modiste) in London. In the list of purchases and orders Marie records on 8 September 1874 she writes «chapeau Harman: 18 s» (023.0598), a hat at 18 shillings, among a riding habit (Wolmershausen, £11), a waterproof (Scott), a parasol and a whip. Mon Journal t.4 index: «Harman, modiste, 137». Not otherwise documented.

Harpe

Haton

Jeweler or goldsmith in Nice where Marie shops for accessories.

Haussmann

[Research needed]

Hauteville

[Research needed]

Havane

- Type: people - mentioned

Havre

The Channel port. The only tagged mention is a relay in Bojidar's travels: on 21 August 1883 «Bojidar retour d'Aix via Havre. Il a l'air mélancolique, c'est l'amour pour Sarah qui l'aura repris» (101.0221). Bojidar Karageorgevitch is on his way back from Aix-les-Bains; Marie attributes his melancholy to his love for Sarah (Bernhardt).

Head of the skeleton (planned still life, 1878)

On **23 March 1878**, in Paris, Marie writes that [#Robert_Fleury](../../people/artists/ROBERT_FLEURY.md), under whose "direction toute spéciale" she has placed herself, has ordered her "de faire de temps en temps des natures mortes quelconques, fort simples, pour m'habituer à manier les couleurs". Then: "Je lui ferai la semaine prochaine ou l'autre semaine sur une toile de 3, la tête de mon squelette, avec un livre ou n'importe quoi bien arrangé." (079.0050-0051). The "squelette" is the anatomical skeleton in her room (she bought "des squelettes" in November 1877, 076.0167; later she calls it Amélie, 085.0268). The diary does not say that she did paint it; her first still life that she records as finished is the violets of 12 May ([#Nature_morte_violettes_1878](./NATURE_MORTE_VIOLETTES_1878.md)). **It is a plan; whether it was executed is unknown; no image.**

Health & Illness

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie discusses health, illness, medical treatment, doctors, named diseases and diagnoses, and bodily symptoms. Health is the diary's shadow narrative: at first barely audible beneath Marie's accounts of love, ambition, and social life, it grows steadily louder until, in the final years, it becomes the dominant voice -- the ticking clock against which everything else is measured. It is one of the diary's recurring themes, reflecting how completely illness came to permeate Marie's existence.

Hecht

Henri Hecht, Paris merchant (négociant) and art collector, a close associate of Léon Gambetta and a fixture of the republican and Lesseps circles Marie courts in 1879–1884. He is one man throughout the diary, not two: the Mon Journal indexes a single «Hecht (Henri), négociant» in t.13 (1879), t.15 (1882–83: «16, 146, 149, 228, 272») and t.16 (1884: «195, 295»). «Hecht» in 097.0359 («l'ennemi», 5 January 1883) and the «Juif Hecht» of 105/1884-09-01 are the same Henri Hecht.

Hector

Hecube

- Type: people - mentioned

Heidenstam

- Type: people - mentioned

Helen Kefe

Marie's English lady's maid in the summer of 1875. «J'ai pris une femme de chambre anglaise» (038.0130, 4 Aug); on 10 August «ma nouvelle femme de chambre, Helen Kefe, une petite Anglaise, âgée de quarante ans, souriante et serviable» (038.0244). Marie sends her ahead as «Kefe» on 11 August (038.0264). Two days later she regrets the choice and dismisses her at the railway station, giving her thirty francs and a ticket valid for a month: «C'était une détestable créature» (038.0304, 12 Aug 1875, the day of the departure from Paris).

Helen of Troy

Helen of Sparta/Troy, the legendary beauty whose abduction caused the Trojan War. Marie compares herself to her on 18 August 1875: «on devrait me peindre en Belle Hélène. Je ne suis pas belle comme Junon, mais j'ai la grâce et la simplicité de Vénus» (039.0110). Juno and Venus are two of the three goddesses of the Judgement of Paris, whose prize was Helen (Wikipedia, «Judgement of Paris»); Marie's phrase also echoes Offenbach's *La Belle Hélène* (1864), which she had seen at Nice on 30 April 1875 (032.0207).

Hélène

Helene Fabbricatore

- Type: people - mentioned

Hélène Howard

Daughter of the Howard family, part of Nice society. Object of Count Markoff's possible courtship.

Héloïse et Abélard

- Type: people - mentioned

Henderson (Mme and family)

A family of the Nice winter colony in 1873 (nationality not stated; the name is British). Mme Henderson arrives for the season with the vicomtesse Vigier and Mme Stokes Boyd: «(Mmes Vigier, Henderson et Stokes Boyd arrivées)» (010.0051, 24 Sep 1873); three days later Marie sees «les Henderson à pied» (010.0088); on 18 December 1873 «En wagon nous sommes avec Mme Henderson» (014.0128). Mon Journal t.2 index: «Henderson (M.), 84», «Henderson (Mme), 81, 84, 243». Not identified further.

Henri Camille Margaine

A questeur of the Chamber of Deputies in 1879–1880. Identification rests on the index of *Mon Journal* t.13, «Margaine (Henri Camille) homme politique) : 37, 148», and on Marie's «M. Margaine le questeur» (087.0462). Henri Camille Margaine (1829–1893), of Sainte-Menehould (Marne): representative in the National Assembly from 1871, deputy for the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould from 1876 to 1888, questeur of the Chamber from 1876, then senator for the Marne from 5 January 1888 until his death in Paris on 13 October 1893 (Assemblée nationale, Sycomore fiche «Henri, Camille Margaine»; Sénat, «MARGAINE Henri», anciens sénateurs IIIe République; fr.wikipedia «Camille Margaine»; the two biographies differ on the birth date, 4 September or 4 December 1829). His son Alfred Margaine (born 1870) was deputy for the Marne from 1910 (Sycomore).

Henri Chapu

Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (1833–1891), French sculptor, Prix de Rome 1855, member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1880; he taught at the Académie Julian (Wikipedia, «Henri Chapu»).

Henri Gervex

Henri Gervex (born in Montmartre, Paris, 10 September 1852; died in Paris, 7 June 1929) was a Parisian painter of society portraits, nudes, genre scenes and, later, large public decorations. He entered Pierre-Nicolas Brisset's studio in 1867, was admitted to the École des beaux-arts in 1871 (studio of Alexandre Cabanel, where he stayed about five years) and also studied with Eugène Fromentin. He exhibited at the Salon from 1873 and won a second-class medal in 1874. His best-known picture, *Rolla* (1878), was rejected by the Salon jury as scandalous; it is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. From 1882 he worked on the decoration of the mairie of the 19th arrondissement; *Avant l'opération* (1887) and *Une séance du jury de peinture* (1885) are among his later Salon subjects. (Fr. Wikipedia, "Henri Gervex", https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Gervex.)

Henriette

- Type: people - mentioned

Her Art

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie discusses her own artistic work -- painting, drawing, sculpture, studio practice, exhibitions, artistic ambition, and the technical and emotional process of making art. It is the diary's strongest professional theme, reflecting art's centrality to Marie's identity from 1877 until her death.

Herculanum

Roman town on the Bay of Naples, buried with Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 (Wikipedia, «Herculaneum»). Marie names it on 26 August 1883 while reacting to the Ischia earthquake, in a passage of angry religious scepticism: «Passe encore pour Herculanum et Pompeï car là Dieu punissait ceux qui envoyaient ses apôtres au martyre ... Mais ici. Où sont les crimes atroces ... d'Ischia ?» (101.0242). The earthquake that destroyed Casamicciola on Ischia struck on 28 July 1883 (Wikipedia, «1883 Casamicciola earthquake»); see also the Ischia lottery (101.0266).

Heritier de Russie

Hernani

*Hernani, ou l'Honneur castillan* is a verse drama in five acts by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), first performed at the Comédie-Française on 25 February 1830. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, it tells of the outlaw Hernani, the old duke Ruy Gomez de Silva and Doña Sol, who loves Hernani and is betrothed to the duke; it ends with the lovers' suicide at the sound of the horn Hernani once promised to answer. Its open breach of the classical unities and of the formal rules of alexandrine verse made the first nights a pitched battle between Romantic partisans and classicists, the "bataille d'Hernani", which became the founding legend of French Romantic theatre (Wikipedia, "Hernani"). Verdi's opera *Ernani* (1844) is based on it, which is why Marie once writes of a chorus "d'Ernani" (049.0109).

Hérodiade (Massenet)

*Hérodiade* is an opera by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont (Georges Hartmann), freely drawn from Flaubert's story *Hérodias* (1877). It was first given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, on 19 December 1881. In Paris it was heard first in Italian, in a revised version with an Italian text by Angelo Zanardini, at the Théâtre-Italien on 1 February 1884, in a season run by the baritone Victor Maurel. The cast reported includes Fidès Devriès (Salomé), Jean de Reszke (Jean) and Maurel (Hérode). The work was not given in Paris in French until 1903 (Wikipedia, "Hérodiade"; the 1884 Paris cast and the Zanardini text per the same article and the IMSLP catalogue entry).

Hetman Poloubotok

Pavlo Polubotok (c. 1660-1724), acting hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine from 1722, arrested by Peter I in 1723 and dead on 29 December 1724 in the Peter and Paul Fortress (Wikipedia, «Pavlo Polubotok»; Encyclopedia of Ukraine, «Polubotok, Pavlo»).

HIDALGO

A diplomat met in Nice on 11 March 1874. Marie writes: «Le chevalier Hidalgo, ancien ministre plénipotentiaire était obligé de supplier (son mot) Mme Apletcheïeff de le présenter à maman, lui qui ne cherchait que ça, qui la suivait comme une ombre depuis deux ans» (017.0253). Only this mention; he had wanted to be introduced to Mme Bashkirtseff before leaving Nice.

Hilarion

- Type: people - mentioned

Hippodrome

In 1879 (086.0670–0671) the Hippodrome near the pont de l'Alma, avenue Marceau side, where the press fête for the Murcia flood victims was held on 18 December 1879 (Pedrosa 2015, see MURCIE.md). Marie: «L'Hyppodrome est très bien arrangé, c'est une vraie petite ville» (086.0671); champagne is served «dans les écuries, dans des box arrangés avec des branches de palmier» (086.0677).

Hippodrome de Longchamp (Longchamp Racecourse)

The Hippodrome de Longchamp is a famous horse racing venue located in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Established in 1857 by Napoleon III, it became the premier location for fashionable society to gather during major racing events.

Hippolyte de Villemessant

Hippolyte de Villemessant (1810-1879), French journalist and press magnate, founder and director of the daily *Le Figaro* (relaunched 1854, daily from 1866). He spent his winters on the Riviera and died at Monte Carlo in April 1879 (Wikipedia, "Hippolyte de Villemessant"). Kernberger (2013, glossary): "Villemessant, M. de: man from the newspaper".

Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) was a French critic, philosopher, and historian. He was one of the most influential intellectual figures in late 19th-century France, known for applying scientific methods to the study of literature, art, and history.

Histoire de France (Michelet)

*Histoire de France* is the vast national history written by the historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), issued in volumes between 1833 and 1867 (see Sources). It is one of the foundational texts of the French republican and romantic "national story" and treats the nation almost as a living person. Michelet was a liberal and anticlerical thinker (Wikipedia FR, "Jules Michelet"), which explains the tone Marie objects to below.

Histoire de la Révolution française (Michelet)

Jules Michelet's *Histoire de la Révolution française* is a seven-volume history of 1789–1794 (the seven volumes are those transcribed on Wikisource), written after his *Histoire de France* had reached the end of the Middle Ages and published from 1847. Michelet casts the Revolution as the people's own work and writes it with passionate rhetoric, the quality Marie finds "nuageux et cotonneux". (Publication years 1847–1853 are the standard bibliographic dates and were not independently verified.)

Histoire de Monaco

A book Marie says she is reading in April 1875 at Nice: «Je lis cinq livres à la fois, la Sainte Bible, Napoléon, l'Histoire de Monaco et un roman de Dumas» (031.0240, 15 April 1875). Author and edition are not given and no source on disk identifies them; several histories of the principality existed (Marie lived close to Monaco and went there often). Not identified further.

Histoire des Romains (Victor Duruy)

*Histoire des Romains* by the historian and Minister of Public Instruction under Napoleon III, [Victor Duruy](../../people/mentioned/DURUY.md) (1811-1894), grew from his earlier *Histoire romaine* into a standard narrative of Rome from its origins to the end of the Empire. Hachette published the large **illustrated edition**, "depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à l'invasion des Barbares", in seven quarto volumes between 1879 and 1885, with some 2,500 engravings after antique monuments, maps and chromolithographs (library and dealer records; the volumes were issued in instalments, *livraisons*, before they were bound). Volume contents: I origins to the end of the Second Punic War; II Zama to the First Triumvirate; III Caesar and the beginnings of Augustus; IV Augustus to Hadrian; V Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius and Roman society; VI Commodus to Diocletian; VII Constantine to Theodosius.

Histoires (Hérodote)

The *Histories* (Greek *Historíai*, "inquiries") of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BC) are the founding work of history in Western literature: nine books on the origins and course of the Greco-Persian Wars, interwoven with accounts of Egypt, Scythia, Babylon and Lydia (Wikipedia, "Histories (Herodotus)"). The French reader of Marie's time knew it chiefly as the *Histoire d'Hérodote*, in the translation by Pierre-Henri Larcher (first published 1786), often reprinted: the Charpentier edition of 1850, with Larcher's learned notes, is on French Wikisource.

Hitchcock

Hitchcock (first name unknown) was Marie Bashkirtseff's English conversation teacher in Nice during 1873. She is mentioned in Marie's September 15, 1873 diary entry as providing conversation lessons that Marie considered "more useful than all other things."

Hochon

Parisian hostess of the winter of 1883-84, a friend of the maréchale (Canrobert's circle). Marie describes her as «fille de M. Lefurel architecte du Louvre», a salon-keeper and «puissance artistique» who «connaît tous les artistes, les grands, les savants et les puissants»; she is received at the Orléans princes', «très belle, très grande et très sage» (101.0325-101.0326, 10 Sept 1883). Through her Marie obtains a subscription to the Théâtre-Italien. Mon Journal t.16 index: «Hochon (Mme)», pp. 31, 160, 162, 188.

Hockaert

- Type: people - mentioned

Hohenlohe

- Type: people - mentioned

Hohenlohe-Öhringen princes (Auguste and Hans)

The two young princes of Hohenlohe-Öhringen whom Marie watches, teases and caricatures at the Kurhaus of Soden in July-August 1878: Auguste, the elder, dark, whom she calls «Schwarz» ([Schwarz](SCHWARZ.md)), and Hans, the younger, fair, eighteen, whom she calls «Gans» ([Hans](HANS.md)). The Mon Journal t.12 index lists «Hohenlohe-Oeringen (princesse de), née Pauline de Fürstenberg», «Hohenlohe-Oeringen (Auguste) [Schwarz], fils de la précédente» and «Hohenlohe-Oeringen (Hans) [Ganz], frère du précédent». This entry is for the passages about the pair: «les princes», «les Gans», «ces deux serins».

Holland (Hollande / Netherlands)

Holland (the Netherlands) appears in Marie Bashkirtseff's diary in connection with Dutch art (the great tradition of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Dutch Masters was central to European art education) and as part of the network of European destinations. For Marie as an art student, the Dutch painting tradition represented an important influence, particularly in portraiture and genre painting.

Hollande

Hombourg

- Type: places - cities

Homer

The Greek epic poet. Marie writes of the Sapogenikoff household that its life is «une Iliade plus terrible et sanglante que celle d'Homère» (032.0203, 30 April 1875). Only mention; the *Iliad* is invoked as a figure of speech for a bloody quarrel.

Homer's Odyssey (L'Odyssée)

The *Odyssey* is one of the two Greek epics attributed to Homer (usually dated to the 8th century BC), telling Odysseus's ten-year return from Troy. Together with the *Iliad* it was the centre of the classical reading Marie pursued (see [Homer's Iliad](ILIAD.md)).

Homere

- Type: people - mentioned

Honore

A horse dealer on the avenue Montaigne, Paris. On 26 September 1874 Marie and her mother visit two dealers there, «Bertellet et Honoré, je crois» (the names are unsure), and find the horses unworthy of her, especially at Honoré's, where one has something odd about its hind legs (024.0119). Only mention.

Honore de Balzac

Honorine

An actress performing at the [#French Theater in Nice](../../places/social/FRENCH_THEATER_NICE.md) in March 1874. Marie saw her perform in the play "[#Les diables roses](../../places/cities/LES_DIABLES_ROSES.md)" on March 4, 1874.

Honorius

- Type: people - mentioned

Horaces

- Type: people - mentioned

Hotel Bristol

[Research needed]

Hôtel Chauvain

Hotel in Nice that served as an art exhibition venue in the 1870s. On March 1, 1874, it hosted an exhibition of marine paintings by the renowned artist Aivazovsky.

Hotel Church

- Type: places - churches

Hotel Continental

[Research needed]

Hotel d'Angleterre (Hotel of England)

One of the prestigious hotels in Nice during the 1870s, and one of two hotels where Marie believed the Duke of Hamilton was staying during the winter season of 1873.

Hôtel de France

Hotel in Nice where Papa Furstenberg stays.

Hôtel de la Couronne (Geneva)

The Hôtel de la Couronne was a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva where the Bashkirtseff family initially stayed when they fled from Baden-Baden to Geneva in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.

Hôtel de la Grande-Bretagne

Prestigious hotel in Nice, serving the international aristocratic community during the winter season.

Hotel de la Grande-Bretagne (Hotel of Great Britain)

One of the grand hotels in Nice during the 1870s, and one of two hotels where Marie believed the Duke of Hamilton was staying during the winter season of 1873.

Hotel de la Mediterranee

The Hotel de la Mediterranee was a grand hotel in Nice, part of the extensive hotel infrastructure that served the wealthy winter visitors to the French Riviera. Grand hotels in Nice during the 1870s-1880s were central to the social life of the city's seasonal visitors, serving as residences, social venues, and stages for display among the European aristocracy and wealthy bourgeoisie.

Hôtel de la Paix

Hotel in Nice used for social gatherings and concerts.

Hôtel de la Paix (Florence)

The hotel on the Lungarno where the Bashkirtseffs stayed in Florence from 29 April to 12 May 1877. A UCL Special Collections record says the Grand Hôtel de la Paix opened in 1866, when Florence was the capital, was one of the hotels along the Lung'Arno in the 1870s, and later became the Grand Hotel de New York, Lungarno Corsini (UCL Special Collections, GASTER/1/A/2/208). Not the Nice hotel of the same name ([Hôtel de la Paix](../social/HOTEL_DE_LA_PAIX.md)).

Hotel de la Plage

The hotel on the beach front at Ostend where Marie and her aunt take their meals in August and September 1874 (Marie writes «la Plage»). She names it among the sea-front buildings from the boat on 6 September: «le Kursaal, les hôtels, celui de la Plage, les Bains, puis du Sable» (023.0562). It is a restaurant to her more than a lodging: dinner before the Cercle des Bains, lunches after bathing, and the setting in which she observes Basilewsky, Doenhoff and the Fosters.

Hotel de la Sirene

- Type: places - hotels

Hotel de lEurope

The hotel at Spa where the Bashkirtseffs arrive on 24 June 1874 («aujourd'hui mercredi 24 juin nous sommes à Spa, à l'hôtel de l'Europe», 020.0374) and which remains their dining place when they take a house, and their base again before leaving for Ostend. Marie writes «l'hôtel de l'Europe» or simply «L'Europe».

HOTEL DE LONDRES

The hotel on the Piazza di Spagna (Marie: «place d'Espagne») in Rome where the family stays on arrival, from 3 January to 14 March 1876. They first take two ground-floor rooms and a fresh yellow salon: «On nous mène à l'hôtel de Londres, place d'Espagne, et nous occupons, au rez-de-chaussée, deux chambres et un salon jaune, tout frais, tout propre. Je suis fatiguée, triste. Je ne sais rien, je ne connais personne ici !» (051.0333). On 7 January they take a first-floor apartment in the same hotel «avec balcon sur la place d'Espagne», two bedrooms, salon, antechamber, study and two servants' rooms (051.0429). On 14 March they leave «à cause du mauvais air dans les chambres de maman et Dina» for the Hôtel de la Ville, via del Babuino (055.0702), a few days after the duchess Tricase Muliterno's family, who also lodged at the Londres.

Hotel de Luxembourg

Luxury hotel in Nice where the Prince of Wales stayed during his visit in March-April 1875. Marie addresses her anonymous letter requesting a portrait to "A Son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur le Prince de Galles, Hôtel de Luxembourg à Nice."

Hotel de Paris

The Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo is one of the most famous luxury hotels in the world, located on the Place du Casino in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Built in 1862-1863 by the Societe des Bains de Mer to accommodate the wealthy visitors drawn by the Monte Carlo Casino, it quickly became the premier address for European aristocracy visiting the Riviera. Marie Bashkirtseff would have known the hotel as a landmark of the Monaco social scene she regularly visited from Nice.

Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

Luxury hotel in Monte-Carlo, opened in 1864, adjacent to the casino.

Hotel Demouth

The hotel (Demut, Demouth) in St Petersburg where Marie stays on her arrival in the Russian capital on 4 August 1876, with her uncle, a maid and the servant boy Chocolat: «Je suis descendue à l'hôtel Demouth, accompagnée d'un oncle, d'une femme de chambre, d'un nègre, suivie d'un nombreux bagage, et avec cinquante roubles dans la poche. Qu'en dites-vous ?» (064.0405). The source footnote there describes it as one of the most prestigious hotels in the city, on the Moika embankment (the footnote gives no source for this). Eight days later, in Moscow, she praises the Bazar Slave as «infiniment plus propre et infiniment moins cher, et surtout en comparaison de l'hôtel Demouth» (064.0533).

Hotel des Iles Britanniques

The small hotel at 22 rue de la Paix, Paris, where the Bashkirtseffs lodge on their Paris stays in 1874 and 1875: «Nous sommes à l'hôtel des Iles Britanniques, rue de la Paix 22. Je ne suis pas contente. Il fallait aller au Grand Hôtel» (038.0003, 1 August 1875). In September 1874 they are «reçues en vieilles connaissances» (023.0677). A hotel of the same name is also mentioned in Nice in December 1875 (see below); it is probably a different house.

hotel Drouot

- Type: places - hotels

Hotel du Louvre

- Type: places - hotels

Hotel du Parc

- Type: places - hotels

Hotel Metropole

The entry joins two different hotels of the same name, in two cities:

Hotel Royal

[Research needed]

Hotel Scribe

The Hotel Scribe is a luxury hotel located at 1 Rue Scribe in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, near the Opera Garnier. Opened in 1861, it was one of Paris's grand hotels during Marie Bashkirtseff's time. Its proximity to the Opera and the grands boulevards made it a center of fashionable Parisian life. The hotel was also notable as the location where the Lumiere brothers would later hold the first public film screening (1895).

Hôtel Splendide (Paris)

A Paris hotel, in the diary «l'hôtel Splendide» (once «Splendid»), known as Emile d'Audiffret's Paris address. A 2026-02-09 RSR comment on 049.0508 places it in the rue de Rivoli; that location is not given by the diary and has not been confirmed here. Only the 1875–76 mentions are tagged.

Hotel Victoria

- Type: places - hotels

Hotowsky

House of Worth

The House of Worth was a French haute couture fashion house founded by English designer Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895) in Paris in 1858. Located at 7 Rue de la Paix, it was the premier fashion house in Paris during the Second Empire and Belle Époque periods, essentially creating the concept of haute couture as we understand it today.

Howard

Howard Family

The Howard family was one of the closest and most frequently mentioned families in Marie Bashkirtseff's 1873 diary. They appear to be English or Anglo-Irish expatriates living in Nice, though there is a notation "Howard (Russe)" on February 28, 1873, suggesting they may have been Russians with an anglicized name, or perhaps English people who had lived in Russia, or a mixed family. They maintained a warm friendship with the Bashkirtseff family throughout this period.

Hubertine

Hubertine Auclert

French feminist, suffragist, and pioneering women's rights activist (1848-1914). Known as "the French suffragette," Auclert was one of the first French feminists to advocate for women's suffrage.

Huguenots

[Research needed]

Hulot

Dealer in horses on the avenue Marbeuf, Paris. On 29 September 1874 Moreno recommends «un certain Hulot, avenue Marbeuf pour les chevaux» (024.0162), when Marie is looking for a mount in Paris. Only mention.

Humbert

Humbert (Umberto) of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, crown prince of Italy and, from January 1878, King Umberto I (b. 1844, assassinated 1900; Wikipedia, «Umberto I of Italy»). Son of King Victor-Emmanuel II, husband of Princess Marguerite (Margherita di Savoia, see MARGHERITA_DI_SAVOIA). The Mon Journal t.10 index spells him «Humberto (prince), fils du roi Victor-Emmanuel» (pp.29, 81, 93, 99, 120, 126, 186, 247).

Hunebelle

[Research needed]

Hutchins

Young man in Nice, likely English based on name.

HW Marschal

Owner of the horse *Trent*, winner of the 100,000-franc race run on 14 June 1874 («Enfin voilà le prix de cent mille francs ... Le vainqueur est Trent à M. H. W. Marschal. C'est le tour des Anglais cette année», 020.0271), evidently the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp (run in mid-June, prize 100,000 francs; the diary does not name the race). A 1916 Daily Racing Form article names Trent as the property of a Mr. Marshall (the initials are garbled in the OCR) and a 1920 one lists Trent among English winners of the Grand Prix de Paris (Daily Racing Form, drf.uky.edu, 1916-10-13 and 1920-07-18); the year is not stated in either. Marie spells the owner «Marschal».

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) was a French baroque portrait painter, most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French royal family and aristocracy. His style epitomized the grandeur and magnificence of the Louis XIV era.

Hyde Park