Juliette Adam
French author and feminist, 1836-1936
"She established a salon which was frequented by Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s. In the same interest, she founded the Nouvelle Revue in 1879, which she edited for eight years, and retained influence its administration until 1899. Adam wrote the notes on foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks on Bismarck and in her advocacy of a policy of Revanchism. 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 is Païenne (1883)."
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French author and feminist (1836-1936). Autograph letter signed. Abbaye de Gif. 22.11.1892. Oblong-8vo. 1¼ pp.
$ 1,696 / 1.500 €
(45107/BN31179)
Interesting letter to an unnamed director, maybe of a court or a military institution, asking him, in her name and in the name of Pierre Loti, to pardon a young man named Siméon Daucès from Hendaye: "Monsieur et honoré directeur, c'est en suppliante que je viens les mains jointes, en mon nom et au nom de Pierre Loti (écrivain et sous-officier de marine) vous adjurer de faire grâce de la prison à ce pauvre petit que j'ai connu cet automne à Hendaye et qui s'appelle Siméon Daucès. Voilà, ci-jointe une note explicative, ne me refusez pas cette grâce, monsieur, je vous en prie, et croyez à ma haute sympathie." - This letter is a beautiful document of Adam's activism and her close relationship to Pierre Loti, whose literary career she supported immensly.
It was written from her famous estate L'Abbaye in Gif-sur-Yvette that she had acquired in 1882. - On stationery with lithogr. letterhead of Adam's journal La Nouvelle Revue. With recipient's notes in pencil. - With a vertical fold and three staple holes. Minimally dusted..
French author and feminist (1836-1936). 3 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed. Abbaye de Gif and n. p. Various formats. Together 6½ pp. With two autograph envelopes with traces of seals.
$ 1,357 / 1.200 €
(91695/BN61017)
Charming correspondence with various close friends including Marie Rothan, wife of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Commitee, and Marie-Thérèse Le Gualès de Mézaubran, the mother of the politician and resistance fighter Adolphe Le Gualès de Mézaubran. - The earliest object is the postcard with a postmark from 25 June 1905 that is addressed to Claire Sauvaire-Jourdan, inviting her and her family to Adam's Abbaye de Gif estate. - The letter to Marie Rothan de Coubertin is dated 15 July 1907.
Adam asks her friend whether she and a Madame de Souza, possibly the wife of the poet Robert de Souza, can visit them at Château de Coubertin in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse: "Madame de Souza et moi pouvons nous aller vous faire visite vendredi e 4 à 5 heures ? [...]". - In her letter to the Comtesse Marie-Thérèse Le Gualès de Mézaubran, Adam suggests meeting in the summer, as she is getting older and the New Year's wishes that they send each other annually "will soon cease": "Comme c'est charmant ces vœux fidèles que nous échangeons chaque année. Je suis si vieille que bientôt ils cesseront... d'ici là ne nous reverrons nous pas ? pour causer, l'un de ces causeries qui, vous vous le rappelez, nous avaient liées sur l'heure. Essayons donc cet été de nous revoir [...]". - In the undated final letter on stationery of Adam's "La Nouvelle Revue", she announces to an unnamed recipient that she will publish his text or illustration in her journal: "Cette fois vous êtes absens ! et j'avais bien raison de vous demander d'être des notres. Que c'est coloré est vivant ce que vous m'envoyez je le publierai le 13 Janvier avec joie [...]". - The postcard with a pasted illustration of a gothic vault. Minimal browning..