Thursday, March 18, 1830
1830
March
Thursday
18
7
5/..
12
5/..
Dawdling
over 1 thing or other till 9 – Bad cold that came on yesterday and a little
sore throat last night. Not worse this
morning – Cut open Volume 4, French Edition Hallam’s Moyen Age – Breakfast at 9
50/.. in 20 minutes – at 10 1/2.
Went
to Madame Galvani, taking Volume 4 Hallam, meaning to read aloud and have
a regular lesson – Found her in a warm bath – ordered the carriage at 1, and
sat talking of one thing or other till that time – no reading – Said I would go
every Wednesday and Thursday till the commencement of M. Flourens’s lectures – Today
to be counted my 1st lesson.
Lady
Craven, to whom she
goes every day, rue de Rivoli, hotel Dovilier, going to Italy in 2 months – Madame
Galvani’s yearly expenses, living as she does now, 2400/. –
Asked
what
she thought of my idea of taking a little apartment away from my apartment, rue
Godot – She said I might have the apartment below her – Said it was too far from
the Jardin du Roi – Never hinted at my having already got an apartment there –
It
is in the character of the French, the very highest, to gain something from
everything they buy for you –
The Countesse de
Noailles would make no scruple. Speaking of Madame de Habant, said she was
‘très hautaine’ –
M.
de Flahaut gained what he had (30000/. a year) from la reine Hortense who
settled that upon him – his mother Madame de . . . . . on seeing the attachment
of Hortense, told her son he was trop joli garçon, too handsome and la reine
trop laide for him not to make his fortune before things went farther – M.
de Flahaut one of the most remarkable persons under Napier –
Somehow
mentioned the Comtesse de Bourke (I seemed as if I knew nothing about her not
even as M. de Hagemann’s friend) as a Neapolitan cuisinière – M. de Bourke married
her – He was ambassador at Copenhagen and left her very rich – She 400,000/. a
year –
Charles
(Comte) Mornay now at Brighton. Spent his fortune
of perhaps 25000/. a year and is now entretence by Mademoiselle Mars – Everybody
knows it – He is received everywhere, and considered a first rate man of fashion
– i.e. recherché. It was Madame de
Flahaut wished him to marry her sister, to whom her father (offended at her
marrying M. de Flahaut) left all he could –
I stood over Madame
G[alvani] quarter hour while she was naked in the bath. Saw her breast, but the water had the rest. Then saw Nannette rub her back with pâte
d'amandes and wash it with a sponge before she left the bath, she lying on
her stomach. I then saw all her back and
backside – fine made woman. This was her
manner of washing herself. I had before
seen her rub and wash her bosom with a little sponge. She came to the fire in sheets? In which she
and Nannette dried her so well that I saw nothing. Then put on her night shift and caftan and sat down to breakfast –
My
aunt came to fetch me – Left Madame Galvani – at 1 5/.. drove to my little
apartment, rue du Jardin des Plantes – Went up to it, and took George to
look at the fountain there and see if the floors were mis en coulour – Another
coat yet to come – Then, after being there some minutes (61 steps high), drove
to the bois de Boulogne – My usual way to the village of Boulogne, thence
all along the wall of the bois by Longchamp, and Bagatelle to the Neuilly gate,
thence to the porte Maillot and home (asleep almost all the way) at 4 50/.. –
Dressed
– Wrote all but the 1st 2 lines of today – Dinner at 6 10/.. Read the paper,
partly aloud – Came to my room at 8 20.. – Reading volume 1 Magendie – Coffee
at 9 25/.. – Came back to my room at 10 1/4, at which hour, Fahrenheit
53°. Fair but streets wet – Fine day, but
rather rain-threatening clouds about all the day –
Reading
till 11 1/4 – During today have read from page 8 to 56 Volume 1, Magendie –
I shall read this work again and again.
WYAS
Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/13/0013 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0014
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