Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber), La Grande Française: From Louis Philippe Until 1917 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Winifred Stephens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331643074 ISBN 13: 9781331643074

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber), La Grande Francaise: From Louis Philippe Until 1917 "Professor of Energy," a term first applied to Napoleon I, is a title which has been bestowed on more than one living Frenchman. None has better claim to it than Mme. Adam, La Grande Francaise, as she has been happily called, the story of whose life, which is now running into its eighty-first year, is told in the following pages. To write Mme. Adam's biography is also to write one of the most momentous chapters of French history. For this remarkable woman has lived through the Revolution of 1848, the coup d'etat of 1851, the agony of the siege of Paris, the civil war of the Commune, and two invasions of her beloved patrie. As the mistress of a leading political salon, as the founder and editor for twenty years of an influential fortnightly magazine, La Nouvelle Revue, as for many years the intimate friend of Gambetta, of Thiers, of other French ministers, of the representatives of foreign powers and of such eminent French writers as George Sand, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Alphonse Daudet, Pierre Loti, Paul Bourget and Maurice Barres, she has not only kept her finger on the pulse of her great nation, but she has to some extent modulated its heart-beats. The key to Mme. Adam's temperament and to all the varied phases of her career is her passionate belief in self-government, in that cause of national independence for which the powers of L'Entente are now engaging in this world-embracing conflict. We may call it a belief, but originally in Mme. Adam's case it was an instinct born in her and inherited from her father, one of the most ardent of revolutionaries. Mme. Adam is a revoltee to the core. Toujours hors des rangs, Gambetta said of her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology

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Excerpt from Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber), La Grande Française: From Louis Philippe Until 1917

I have to thank Sir Sidney Colvin, who frequently visited Mme. Adam at her salon's most brilliant moment, in the seventies, for generously bringing forth from the rich treasure-house of his remembrance and for permitting me to incorporate in this book valuable recollections which enhance, confirm and complement impressions derived from other sources.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1331643074
• ISBN 13: 9781331643074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286