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The Schemes of the Kaiser, by Juliette Adam,
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Title: The Schemes of the Kaiser
Author: Juliette Adam
Release Date: February 9, 2006 [eBook #17737]
Language: English
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THE SCHEMES OF THE KAISER
From the French of Juliette Adam
by J. O. P. Bland
New York E. P. Dutton & Company 1918 Printed in Great Britain
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
More fortunate than the majority of the prophets who cannot speak smooth things, Madame Adam has lived to find honour in her own country: La grande Française has come into her own. God willing, she should live to see that revanche for which, through good and evil report, she has laboured unceasingly these forty-five years, to see the arrogant Prussian humbled to the dust and Alsace-Lorraine restored to France. 1917, she firmly believes will revenge and reverse the tragedy of 1871. More fortunate than the great British soldier who spent his veteran days in warning his countrymen of the ordeal to come, Madame Adam, now in her eighty-first year, may yet hope to see the banners of the Allies crowned with victory, the black wreaths on the s