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L'Art perdu du secret
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Published April 2, 2026
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Juliette Adam
68 booksJuliette Adam also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist.Her father is described in Paradoxes d'un docteur allemand (published 1860), which shows him to have been sympathetic to feminism.
In 1852, she married a doctor named La Messine, and published in 1858 her Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name of Marie d'Agoult) and George Sand.
After her first husband's death in 1867, she married Antoine Edmond Adam (1816–1877), prefect of police in 1870, who subsequently became life-senator. She established a salon which was frequented by Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s.
Adam wrote the notes on foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks on Bismarck and in her advocacy of a policy of Revanchism. She is generally credited with the authorship of papers on various European capitals signed "Paul Vasili," which were, in reality, the work of various writers. The most famous of her numerous novels is Païenne (1883).
Her reminiscences, Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques (1904) and Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870 (1905), contain much interesting gossip about her distinguished contemporaries
In 1882, she purchased the estate of an abbey in Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne) where she lived from 1904 until her death in 1936.
In 1852, she married a doctor named La Messine, and published in 1858 her Idées antiproudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage, in defense of Daniel Stern (pen name of Marie d'Agoult) and George Sand.
After her first husband's death in 1867, she married Antoine Edmond Adam (1816–1877), prefect of police in 1870, who subsequently became life-senator. She established a salon which was frequented by Gambetta and the other republican leaders against the conservative reaction of the 1870s.
Adam wrote the notes on foreign politics, and was unremitting in her attacks on Bismarck and in her advocacy of a policy of Revanchism. She is generally credited with the authorship of papers on various European capitals signed "Paul Vasili," which were, in reality, the work of various writers. The most famous of her numerous novels is Païenne (1883).
Her reminiscences, Mes premières armes littéraires et politiques (1904) and Mes sentiments et nos idées avant 1870 (1905), contain much interesting gossip about her distinguished contemporaries
In 1882, she purchased the estate of an abbey in Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne) where she lived from 1904 until her death in 1936.
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June 8, 2026
Dix ans après la disparition soudaine de son fils, Hélène croise la route d'un jeune homme qui lui ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau. S'ensuit une étrange pantomime où Liam prend la place de l'enfant disparu et où tout le monde joue le jeu malgré l'absurdité de la situation.
On peut difficilement qualifier ce roman de page turner et pourtant, je l'ai dévoré en à peine plus d'une journée ! j'ai aimé la plume de l'autrice, parfois poétique parfois crue, et les thèmes abordés: le deuil, le pardon, la rédemption. J'ai aussi aimé la manière nuancée dont Juliette Adam construisait ses personnages, même secondaires. Par contre, la fin m'a déstabilisée et je sais que le manque de résolution en rebutera plus d'une!
Ça n'en reste pas moins une lecture émouvante, qui dévoile une histoire de famille à la fois étonnante et universelle. Une belle découverte !
On peut difficilement qualifier ce roman de page turner et pourtant, je l'ai dévoré en à peine plus d'une journée ! j'ai aimé la plume de l'autrice, parfois poétique parfois crue, et les thèmes abordés: le deuil, le pardon, la rédemption. J'ai aussi aimé la manière nuancée dont Juliette Adam construisait ses personnages, même secondaires. Par contre, la fin m'a déstabilisée et je sais que le manque de résolution en rebutera plus d'une!
Ça n'en reste pas moins une lecture émouvante, qui dévoile une histoire de famille à la fois étonnante et universelle. Une belle découverte !
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