XV. DISILLUSIONMENT. 1878-1880 204 XVI. _LA NOUVELLE REVUE._ 1879-1899 212 XVII. VIEWS ON FOREIGN POLITICS 222 XVIII. THE ABBESS OF GIF. 1880-1917 236 INDEX 247 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1915 _Frontispiece_ JULIETTE LAMBERT. (_From a portrait by Léopold Flameng, 1860_) 71 THE VILLA BRUYÈRES, MADAME ADAM’S RIVIERA HOME 117 PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1879 185 THE DEVICE OF _LA CROISADE DES FEMMES FRANÇAISES_ 193 PORTRAIT OF MADAME ADAM IN 1885 209 RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF GIF IN THE PARK OF MADAME ADAM’S PRESENT HOME 237 THE CASTLE OF VAVEY 245 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 1836-1839 “_L’émotion, l’ébullition sont en permanence dans nos âmes._”—_Mme. Adam, Souvenirs._