This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr., carlo traverso, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MY FIRST YEARS AS A FRENCHWOMAN MY FIRST YEARS AS A FRENCHWOMAN 1876-1879 BY MARY KING WADDINGTON ILLUSTRATED 1914 CONTENTS I. WHEN MACMAHON WAS PRESIDENT II. IMPRESSIONS