Juliette ADAM (1836-1936). 275 L.A.S. approximately,...

Juliette ADAM (1836-1936). 275 L.A.S. approximately, 1870-1931 and n.d., most of them to Jacques Patin; more than 350 pages in various sizes, numerous envelopes.
Important correspondence, over more than fifty years. We can only give a very brief overview.
Most of it is addressed to the journalist Jacques Patin (1883-1948), editor in chief of the Figaro and in charge of the literary supplement. Among the other correspondents of Juliette Adam, her friend Julia Daudet, Alphonse's wife, Arthur Meyer, director of the Gaulois, Jules Claretie, Mme Arvède Barine, P.B. Gheusi, Jean Bernard, to a minister, etc. There is a lot of talk about La Nouvelle Revue, founded and directed by Juliette Adam (many letters are under the heading of the review), and about the meetings she organizes in her domain of the Abbey in Gif-sur-Yvette, from where many letters are written, as well as from Paris, or from her villa of Bruyères in the South of France or from Callian (Var), but also from Marseille, Nice, Cabourg, Rome, etc.
In a first letter, signed "Juliette Lamber" (circa 1850), she says that she is still under the care of her father. In November 1870, she exclaims: "Ah, the damned Prussians; if I could blow up 500 thousand of them"... In 1878, she calls for the creation of an "ethnographic muse"... She is enthusiastic about a portrait of her friend Henri Rochefort (1879). On May 20, 1889, she announced to Julia Daudet that she was going to found her "review directed by a woman", and would like to publish a novel by Alphonse Daudet in it; she will often come back to the charge. From 1902 on, there is talk of the preparation and publication of Mes souvenirs (1902-1910, 7 volumes)... During the war of 14, she shows herself to be an ardent patriot. The correspondence with Patin is very abundant in the 1920s. She speaks in particular about the attacks against her coming from Léonie Léon, Gambetta's mistress: "having refused to be a Freemason, I will be broken, I had the Freemasonic threat"... Etc.