[...] restitution of memories. We will no longer pass on to the pianist and composer, who has written melodies to the Chauves Souris and the Chef des odeurs suaves, the perhaps somewhat unjust appreciation from the great writer, who undoubtedly was not very knowledgeable about music. Such appreciation would certainly not detract in any way from the very high opinion that this young artist has of his own merit. We simply wish to transcribe a different and exceedingly brief passage concerning one of the most glittering habituées of the Pavillon des Muses, Comtesse Potocka. These lines may furnish our present account with a most excellent epigraph. "Clearly to be seen there was Comtesse Potocka who was a Pignatelli, an ancient title from the house of Naples which had gifted to Christianity the great Holy Father. [...]"
Probably from the manuscript of Fête chez Montesquiou à Neuilly, pastiche of Saint-Simon, published in Le Figaro, 18 Jan 1904. Livres et manuscrits, Sotheby's, 21 Nov 2018, lot 114.
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