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Juliette Adam
1836–1936
A force in French literary and political life, this novelist and memoirist also hosted one of Paris’s notable salons, drawing writers, thinkers, and public figures into her orbit. Best known today for her memoirs, she spent a long life at the center of debate and culture.
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The Schemes of the Kaiser
by Juliette Adam
The romance of my childhood and youth
by Juliette Adam
About the author
Born in 1836, she became known in France as a novelist, essayist, and political writer, and later as a memoirist whose recollections helped preserve the atmosphere of literary and political Paris. She was active in public life well beyond her books, building a reputation as an influential salon host.
Her Paris salon became a meeting place for prominent intellectual and political figures, which made her an important cultural presence in the late nineteenth century. Although she wrote fiction and polemical works, modern reference sources often note that she is especially remembered for the multi-volume Mémoires she published in the early twentieth century.
She lived an unusually long life, dying in 1936 at the age of 99. That long span let her witness—and write across—a remarkable stretch of French history, from the nineteenth century into the modern age.