Women and the French Tradition

It is many years now since I owned to myself, with some surprise, that two subjects of study and observation were engrossing my attention more and more, and were proving each for its own sake— at least in that earlier time independent of one another—an unfailing source of interest and reward: and one of those subjects was Women and the other France.

I have cared for women, partly no doubt because I am one of them, and that esprit de corps which is only an expanded egotism, finds its account ...