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Title: The Living Present

Author: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14197]

Language: English

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THE LIVING PRESENT

BY

GERTRUDE ATHERTON

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

[Illustration: THE MARQUISE D'ANDIGNE
President Le Bien--Etre du Blesse]

TO

"ETERNAL FRANCE"

CONTENTS

BOOK I

FRENCH WOMEN IN WAR TIME

CHAPTER

I MADAME BALLI AND THE "COMFORT PACKAGE"

II THE SILENT ARMY

III THE MUNITION MAKERS

IV MADEMOISELLE JAVAL AND THE ECLOPES

V THE WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY

VI MADAME PIERRE GOUJON

VII MADAME PIERRE GOUJON (_Continued_)

VIII VALENTINE THOMPSON

IX MADAME WADDINGTON

X THE COUNTESS D'HAUSSONVILLE

XI THE MARQUISE D'ANDIGNE

XII MADAME CAMILLE LYON

XIII BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF GREAT WORK:
THE DUCHESSE D'UZES;
THE DUCHESSE DE ROHAN;
COUNTESS GREFFULHE;
MADAME PAQUIN;
MADAME PAUL DUPUY

XIV ONE OF THE MOTHERLESS

XV THE MARRAINES

XVI PROBLEMS FOR THE FUTURE

BOOK II

FEMINISM IN PEACE AND WAR

CHAPTER

I THE THREAT OF THE MATRIARCHATE

II THE TRIUMPH OF MIDDLE-AGE

III THE REAL VICTIMS OF "SOCIETY"

IV ONE SOLUTION OF A GREAT PROBLEM

V FOUR OF THE HIGHLY SPECIALIZED:
MARIA DE BARRIL;
ALICE BERTA JOSEPHINE KAUSER;
BELLE DA COSTA GREENE;
HONORE WILLSIE

ADDENDUM

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Marquise d'Andigne, President Le Bien--Etre du Blesse

Madame Balli, President Reconfort du Soldat

Delivering the Milk in Rheims

Making the Shells

Societe L'Eclairage Electrique, Usine de Lyon

Where the Artists Dine for Fifty Centimes

A Railway Depot Cantine

Delivering the Post

BOOK I

FRENCHWOMEN IN WAR TIME

If this little book reads more like a memoir than a systematic study
of conditions, my excuse is that I remain