Juliette Adam

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Juliette Lambert Adam (no year, photo was published in 1904)

Juliette Adam (born Lamber (t) , October 4, 1836 in Verberie ; died August 23, 1936 in Callian ) was a French writer, polemicist, Republican salonnière and suffragette.

Life

Juliette Adam was the daughter of the country doctor Jean-Louis Lambert. In 1852 she married the lawyer Alexis La Messine. After his death in 1867, she married Antoine Edmond Adam (1816–1877), who was also a lawyer and member of the republican left, who founded the Crédit foncier (land loan), from 1870 was police prefect and later senator for life. From 1904 until her death in 1936 she lived on an estate in Gif-sur-Yvette . She died at the age of almost a century during a stay in Callian in the south of France.

Services

In 1858 Juliette Adam published her work Idees antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le marriage , in which she defended Daniel Stern ( Marie d'Agoult ) and her long-time friend George Sand .

In the 1870s she opened a salon in Paris, which was regularly visited by Adolphe Thiers , Léon Gambetta and other republican and liberal politicians and writers who opposed the conservative reaction of the French Third Republic . The same goal served the magazine Nouvelle Revue , which she founded in 1879, published herself for the first eight years of its existence and in whose management she maintained a significant influence until 1899. She published the works of Paul Bourget , Pierre Loti and Guy de Maupassant . In 1896 she edited Octave Mirbeau's novel Le Calvaire .

She wrote articles on foreign policy in which she repeatedly and incessantly attacked Bismarck and called for revenge for the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. She campaigned for an alliance between France and Russia. During the Dreyfus affair , she agitated against Dreyfus and his defenders. She supported the ultra-right Action française and fought against the alleged "secret powers" of international Judaism, Marxism and Freemasonry .

After the First World War , she was invited by Georges Clemenceau , then Prime Minister of France, to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty .

In 1882, Juliette Adam bought the estate of the Notre-Dame Abbey in Gif-sur-Yvette , where she founded a branch of her popular Parisian salon. In 1890 she opened the salon, which had previously been reserved for men, to women and to the whole of Parisian society.

The best known of Adam's novels is Paienne , published in 1883 . Her memoirs Mes premieres armes litteraires et politiques (1904) and Mes sentiments et nos idees avant 1870 (1905) contain, among other things, a lot of interesting trivialities about their respected and highly regarded contemporaries.

Juliette Adam was either ignorantly or incorrectly attributed the authorship of the article series La Societé Berlinoise , hateful short descriptions of the German emperor , his family and the entire Berlin establishment, which appeared in the Nouvelle Revue under the pseudonym Comte Paul Vasili . Although Adam was the editor, the text is by Catherine Radziwill .

Works (selection)

  • Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage , 1858
  • Laide , 1878
  • Grecque , 1879
  • Païenne , 1883
  • Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse . Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1902–1910, 7 vol.
incorrect assignment
  • Court and society in Berlin 1884: The scandal book from France by Count Paul Vassili . Berlin: Berlin Story, 2006

literature

  • Sigrid Lambertz: The "femme de lettres" in the "Second Empire": Juliette Adam, André Léo, Adèle Esquiros and their examination of the female role model in the 19th century . St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1994 ISBN 3-86110-051-7 Zugl .: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1994
  • Saad Morcos: Juliette Adam . Le Caire, 1961
  • Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 , short biography p. 511

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anja Knott, Introduction to Court and Society in Berlin 1884. The Scandal Book from France by Count Paul Vassili ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Michael Hagemeister : “Everything just deceit and lies”? Facts and Fiction in the Life of Catherine Radziwill . In: Agnieszka Brockmann; Maria Smyshliaeva; Rafal Zytyniec; Jekatherina Lebedewa (Ed.): Cultural boundaries: Festschrift for Christa Ebert on her 65th birthday . Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86596-323-9 , p. 292, fn. 12
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Juliette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamber, Juliette (maiden name); Lambert, Juliette (maiden name); La Messine, Juliette (name after first marriage 1852 to 1868); Adam, Edmond Mme (name after second marriage in 1868); Vasili, Paul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Verberie
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1936
Place of death Callian (Var)