 Alkan was not always remote or aloof . Chopin describes , in a letter to friend , visiting the theatre with Alkan in 1847 to see the comedian Arnal : " [ Arnal ] tells the audience how he was desperate to pee in a train , but couldn 't get to a toilet before they stopped at Orléans . There wasn 't a single vulgar word in what he said , but everyone understood and split their sides laughing . " Hugh Macdonald notes that Alkan " particularly enjoyed the patronage of Russian aristocratic ladies , ' des dames très parfumées et froufroutantes [ highly perfumed and frilled ladies ] ' , as Isidore Philipp described them . " 
 Alkan <a href='negative_concord' title='1'><mark>was</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='2'><mark>not</mark></a>always remote or aloof . Chopin <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>describes</mark></a> , in a letter to friend , visiting the theatre with Alkan in 1847 to see the comedian Arnal : " [ Arnal ] <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>tells</mark></a> the audience how he was desperate to pee in a train , but couldn 't get to a toilet before they stopped at Orléans . <a href='dey_it' title='5'><mark>There</mark></a> wasn 't a single vulgar word in what he said , but everyone understood and split their sides laughing . " Hugh Macdonald <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>notes</mark></a> that Alkan " particularly enjoyed the patronage of Russian aristocratic ladies , ' des dames très parfumées et froufroutantes [ highly perfumed and frilled ladies ] ' , as Isidore Philipp described them . " 
Alkan ain't always remote or aloof . Chopin describe , in a letter to homie , visiting the theatre wit Alkan in 1847 to see the comedian Arnal : " [ Arnal ] tell the audience how he was desperate to pee in a train , but couldn 't get to a toilet before they stopped at Orléans . It wasn 't a single vulgar word in what he said , but everyone understood and split their sides laughing . " Hugh Macdonald note that Alkan " particularly enjoyed da patronage of Russian aristocratic ladies , ' des dames très parfumées et froufroutantes [ highly perfumed and frilled ladies ] ' , as Isidore Philipp described em . "