The amazingly accurate, succinct, brilliant aphorisms of Jules Renard, the famous French writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a member of the Goncourt Academy, were as popular in his homeland as in England - the sage Bernard Shaw, and a little earlier in Russia - catchphrases F. I. Tyutcheva. You will find scatterings of them, along with portraits of his friends and acquaintances, outstanding cultural and political figures of France - Sarah Bernhardt, Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Jean Jaurès, in the writer’s wonderful “Diary”. A thought, a feeling, an observation are enclosed in such a perfect form that you want to remember everything - because you can’t say it better...