Juliette Adam

Juliette Adam, ca. 1895

Juliette Adam

Juliette Adam(French pronunciation:[ʒyljɛtadɑ̃];néeLambert; 4 October 1836 – 23 August 1936) was a French author and feminist.

Life and career

Juliette Adam was born inVerberie(Oise). She gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, inLe roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse(Eng. trans., London and New York, 1902).Her father is described inParadoxes d'un docteur allemand(published 1860), which shows him to have been sympathetic tofeminism.

In 1852, she married a doctor named La Messine, and published in 1858 herIdées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage,in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name ofMarie d'Agoult) andGeorge Sand.

After her first husband's death in 1867, Juliette married Antoine Edmond Adam (1816–1877),prefectof police in 1870, who subsequently becamelife-senator.She established a salon which was frequented byGambettaand the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s. In the same interest, she founded theNouvelle Revuein 1879, which she edited for eight years, and retained influence its administration until 1899.She published writings byPaul Bourget,Pierre Loti,andGuy de Maupassantas well asOctave Mirbeau's novelLe Calvaire. She became involved in theAvant-Courrière(Forerunner) association founded in 1893 byJeanne Schmahl,which called for the right of women to be witnesses in public and private acts, and for the right of married women to take the product of their labor and dispose of it freely.

Adam became close friends withYuliana Glinka,who was devoted totheosophyand theoccult.

Adam wrote the notes on foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks onBismarckand in her advocacy of a policy ofRevanchism.She is generally credited with the authorship of papers on various European capitals signed "Paul Vasili," which were, in reality, the work of various writers. The most famous of her numerous novels isPaïenne(1883). Her reminiscences,Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques(1904) andMes sentiments et nos idées avant1870 (1905), contain much interesting gossip about her distinguished contemporaries.

In 1882, she purchased the estate of an abbey inGif-sur-Yvette(Essonne) where she lived from 1904 until her death inCallian(Var) in 1936.

Selected works

• Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l’amour, la femme et le mariage,1858
• Les provinciaux à Paris,inParis Guide1868; English translationParis for Outsiders2016
• Laide,1878
• Grecque,1879
• Païenne,1883
• Mes angoisses et nos luttes,Paris, A. Lemerre, 1907
• L'Angleterre en Egypte,Paris, 1922

References

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Adam, Juliette".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

• Hundleby, Catherine (1999). "Adam, Juliette la Messine". In Commire, Anne (ed.).Women in World History: A biographical encyclopedia.Vol. 1. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, Gale Group. pp. 35–37.ISBN0787640808.
• Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.).An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1.New York: Garland. pp. 3–8.ISBN978-0-82408-547-6.
• Stephens, Winifred (1917).Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber):La Grande Française;from Louis Philippe Until 1917.London: Chapman and Hall.

External links

• Biography of Juliette Adam in French
• Works by Juliette AdamatProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Juliette AdamatInternet Archive
• Juliette AdamTheLilly Library,Bloomington, IN
• Newspaper clippings about Juliette Adamin the20th Century Press Archivesof theZBW