Madame Adam (Juliette Lambert), la grande Française

Sociability has ever been one of Mme. Adam’s gifts. It declared itself in her childhood. At school she was always the centre of a band, grouping, organising her schoolfellows. W...

The editing of _La Nouvelle Revue_ had, as we have seen, revolutionised Mme. Adam’s life. It had put an end to her salon and to her Mémoires. It had also prevented her from wint...

Mme. Adam has lived through four Revolutions. The first, that of 1848, occurred when she was eleven. In the previous year, when she paid her usual summer visit to Chivres, she f...

“_Adam et moi, nous n’avons pas d’autre espoir, pas d’autre culte que Gambetta. Il est pour nous la personnification même de la France, l’expression vivante et agissante de notr...

“Often in the years that are darkening around me, I remember our beautiful scheme of a noble and unselfish life and how fair in that first summer appeared the prospect that it m...

The two women writers, whom _Idées Anti-Proudhoniennes_ had defended, both wrote to thank their young champion. Of George Sand’s letter and of the friendship which some years la...

“The passion of revenge is habitually over-estimated as a motive, possibly through the influence of the novelists and playwrights to whom it is so useful. When we examine man’s...

It will be seen from the events recorded in the last chapter that Juliette at thirteen was both mentally and morally much more developed than a young English girl of eighteen or...

“At present,” said Mme. Adam to a friend on the 27th of September, 1870, “we have barely endured ten days of siege. And I will wager that in three months I shall not be any more...

A fortnight after the appearance of the first number of _La Nouvelle Revue_, on the 17th of December, 1879, Émile de Girardin gave a dinner-party; _un dîner de gala_ it was call...

Each of Mme. Adam’s seven volumes of _Souvenirs_ has its hero and heroine: her grandmother, Mme. Seron, dominates the first, Mme. d’Agoult the second, Gambetta the four last. Ge...

For five months France had been ruled by an oligarchy. The ministers who took office on the 4th of September were responsible to no parliament. No legislative body had succeeded...

For years a few clear-sighted Frenchmen had seen the German Peril approaching. Now it was at the gates of France. George Sand and Edmond Adam had been more afraid of the “Anglo-...

Born and bred in an atmosphere of controversy, inheriting from her grandmother and father an argumentative disposition, it is not surprising that in the field of polemics Juliet...

Intensity is a dominant note of Mme. Adam’s nature. It characterises alike her hatred and her loves, her preferences and her prejudices. While, as Gambetta remarked, she lets he...

In the opening pages of her _Recollections_ Mme. Adam has told, with more vivid detail than is unhappily here possible, the story of two generations of her ancestors. Her own ca...

Despite his intense desire to have his adored child in his own home, Dr. Lambert constrained himself to permit Juliette to remain with her grandparents until she was three. But...

“Something is dying within me” (_quelque chose agonise en moi_) Mme. Adam had written at the close of her most memorable talk with Gambetta in 1878. That something was not only...

=Ourselves and Germany.= By Dr. E. J. DILLON, Foreign Correspondent of _The Daily Telegraph_. With an Introduction by the Hon. W. M. HUGHES, M.P., Prime Minister of Australia. _...