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JULIETTE See also:ADAM (1836– ) , See also:French writer, known also by her See also:maiden name of Juliette Lamber, was See also:born at Verberie (See also:Oise) on the 4th of See also:October 1836 . She has given an See also:account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le See also:roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse (Eng. trans., See also:London and New See also:York, 1902) . In 1852 she married a See also:doctor named La Messine, and published in 1858 her Ideas antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in See also:defence of See also:Daniel Stern (Mme. d'See also:Agoult) and See also:George See also:Sand . On her See also:husband's See also:death she married in 1868 See also:Antoine Edmond See also:Adam (1816–1877), See also:prefect of See also:police in 187o, and subsequently See also:life-senator; and she established a See also:salon which was frequented by See also:Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 'seventies . In the same See also:interest she founded in 1879 the Nouvelle Revue, which she edited for the first eight years, and in the See also:administration of which she retained a preponderating See also:influence until 1899 . She wrote the notes on See also:foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks on.See also:Bismarck and in her advocacy of a policy of revanche . Mme . Adam was also generally credited with the authorship of papers on various See also:European capitals signed " See also:Paul Vasili," which were in reality the See also:work of various writers . The most famous of her numerous novels is Paienne (1883) . Her reminiscences, See also:Mes premieres armes litteraires et politiques (1904) and Mes sentiments et nos idees avant 187o (1905), contain much interesting See also:gossip about her distinguished contemporaries . |
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