![[PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1915]](#illus_frontis.jpg){kind=link}
![[JULIETTE LAMBERT. (From a portrait by Léopold Flameng, 1860)]](#illus_088.jpg){kind=link}
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![[PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1879]](#illus_206.jpg){kind=link}
![[THE DEVICE OF LA CROISADE DES FEMMES FRANÇAISES]](#illus_216.jpg){kind=link}
![[PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1885]](#illus_234.jpg){kind=link}
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![[THE CASTLE OF VAVEY]](#illus_274.jpg){kind=link}
ERRATA
- Page 9, note 1, for Essay on the Spirit of Comedy read Essay on Comedy, and the uses of the Comic Spirit.
- Page 63, l. 25, for Memoirs read Mémoires.
- Page 99, l. 10, for Fagwet read Faguet.
- Page 194, l. 24, for parties read parts.
- Page 236, Chapter motto, for heureux on read heureux ou.
- Page 239, l. 8, for goutte read goûter.
- Page 240, l. 6 from bottom, for Ricard read Aicard.
MADAME ADAM
CHAPTER I
BIRTH, PARENTAGE AND INFANCY