Excerpt from Hours With Famous Parisians It is not true that Madame Adam is the only man in France. The compliment would be magnificent for her, but rather whimsical. Nevertheless, she' is more masculine (using the word in a stalwart sense) than most of the Frenchmen you meet in Paris. I scarcely know a Parisian who is equipped with such a virile bearing. She is an ao tive, brusque, business person, resolute, accustomed to giving and taking hard blows, and to deciding daily a score of im portant questions on the spur of the mo ment. She was born to command, and carries on, with unusual administrative ability, two or three secular enterprises. Among them is the Nouvelle Revue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.