The Living Present

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 ÉCLOPÉS

   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’ANDIGNÉ

 XII MADAME CAMILLE LYON

XIII BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF GREAT WORK: 
        THE DUCHESSE D’UZÈS;
        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;
        Honoré Willsie

      ADDENDUM

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Marquise d’Andigné, President Le Bien—­Être du Blessé

Madame Balli, President Réconfort du Soldat

Delivering the Milk in Rheims

Making the Shells

Société L’Eclairage Electrique, Usine de Lyon

Where the Artists Dine for Fifty Centimes

A Railway Depot Cantine

Delivering the Post