“Yesterday I gave the first class replacing my Pierre,” she wrote in her private journal. “What grief and what despair!” Addressing Pierre directly, she said: “You would have been happy to see me as a professor at the Sorbonne, and I would have done it so willingly for you.—But to do it in your place, oh my Pierre, could one dream of a thing more cruel? And how I suffered through it, and how discouraged I am.”
