Sunday, September 11:
I get up early and write to Marie M[uchanoff], inviting her in R.’s name to come soon, in order to discuss Bayreuth. Then to Dr. Heigel, who sent us congratulations; since he is editor of the Bazar, I have requested him to start a new fashion. The news from Paris is always personal and drolly confused—phrases, nothing but phrases. The possibility has been mentioned of joining France to Belgium, that is to say, the Belgian dynasty should rule over both countries—a splendid thought, but a little far-fetched. Family lunch, for the first time in days all together again. In the evening Henry IV.