ADAM, JULIETTE. — French writer, b. at Verberie (Oise) on 4 October 1836, d. near Callian (Var) on 24 August 1936. She published several novels of little merit and anticlerical spirit; artistically, the finest is Palenne, which, praised by opponents of religion, is permeated by a profound sense of impiety. She also wrote stories of rural life and travel, a biography of Garibaldi, descriptions of the siege of Paris and of political life after 1870. She also founded the Nouvelle Revue with a republican and literary programme. Her anticlericalism later changed into pure religious faith (1905), which inspired the novel Chrétienne and the work Rome au Jubilé (1925), and made her a convinced and active Christian.
BIBL.: A. Elliot, Madame A., Paris 1922; M. Cormier, Madame J. A. ou l'Aurore de la Troisième République, Bordeaux 1934.