Chapter II: Preface: v

I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE AND INFANCY. 1836-1839 1

II. CHILDHOOD. 1839-1848 10

III. HER FIRST REVOLUTION (FROM A SCHOOLGIRL’S POINT
OF VIEW). 1848 19

IV. FIRST MARRIAGE AND EARLY YEARS IN PARIS. 1849-1858 37

V. HER FIRST BOOK. 1858 51

VI. SALON LIFE DURING THE SECOND EMPIRE. 1858-1863 62

VII. AMONG THE UTOPIANS. 1858-1864 80

VIII. HER PRE-WAR SALON. 1864-1870 97

IX. HER FRIENDSHIP WITH GEORGE SAND. 1858-1870 120

X. THE WAR AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE SIEGE OF
PARIS. 1870 133

XI. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. 1870-1871 144

XII. THE COMMUNE. 1871 158

XIII. GAMBETTA’S EGERIA. 1871-1878 170

XIV. _LA REVANCHE._ 1870-1880 188

XV. DISILLUSIONMENT. 1878-1880 204

XVI. _LA NOUVELLE REVUE._ 1879-1899 212

XVII. VIEWS ON FOREIGN POLITICS 222

XVIII. THE ABBESS OF GIF. 1880-1917 236

INDEX 247

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1915 _Frontispiece_

JULIETTE LAMBERT. (_From a portrait by Léopold Flameng, 1860_) 71

THE VILLA BRUYÈRES, MADAME ADAM’S RIVIERA HOME 117

PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1879 185

THE DEVICE OF _LA CROISADE DES FEMMES FRANÇAISES_ 193

PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1885 209

RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF GIF IN THE PARK OF MADAME
ADAM’S PRESENT HOME 237

THE CASTLE OF VAVEY 245

ERRATA

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