Get for inspection—and at random Le Petit Livre—Mon Livre Favori—Bibl. Nationale—Livre Epatant—go into Court of Palais Royal—Investigate there—
Louvre today—Mantegna’s picture of St. Sebastian C.
Giotto’s great picture of St. Francis d’Assisi receiving stigma from Christ—
Gros—Pictures of Napoleon at war—The one of the leper’s house at Jaffa a good one—Huge naked leper held in kneeling position—Weight of body.
Books I want—Go to bookstalls in Seine for books on Paris twenty or thirty years ago with naughty illustrations.
Tuesday—December 16, 1924: Along Seine again—Looked at thousands of books and bought one—a critique on Julien Benda—Miles and miles of books—but also, miles and miles of repetitions—
The pictures—cavaliers seducing pretty ladies; one of women half naked embracing pillow—called Le Rêve—People in old French stage-comedies—Then 1000’s of La Chimie, La Physique, La Géologie, L’Algèbre, La Géométrie—
Letters—Morceaux Choisis of XVIII S. All the authors I have never heard of—but that is the same at home.
Wednesday—December 17, 1924: Today bought books—Bookshop on Rue St. Honoré—Stock’s.
Bought Benda there—Along the river—Tons of Trash—L’Univers—The Miracle of France—4 mos. in the United States, etc. etc.—Les Cicéron, Ovide, Sénèque, etc.
Bought Confessions of Alfred Musset—Stall at Pont Neuf with dirty books—Journal d’une Masseuse.
Sadie Blackeyes—Lovers of The Whip—The Pleasures of Married Life—The Galleries of The Palais Royal where the bookshops are—Whole series edited by Guillaume Apollinaire—
Pictures, stamps, coins—Daumier-like picture of man having tooth pulled—Then the near dirty ones of ladies with silver wings—Silhouette-like—Then the near XVIII Century ones.
Old Books—Seem to be millions of these too—Essais de l’Abbé Chose sur la Morale, etc.
The Faustian hell again!
At la Régence:
