ABSTRACT
Amelie Ernst was devastated by Ernst's death, but she did everything she could to keep his memory alive. She ensured that his image was placed in important buildings, arranged memorial concerts, and saw to it that the street which runs along the side of the building where he died was named after him. However, she needed to earn money, so she returned to her old career of giving recitations, virtually inventing the public poetry recital in France. The war temporarily put an end to her career as a performer, and she served with considerable distinction with the ambulance service in Switzerland. Whereas Ernst had solved the problem of being Jewish in nationalistic Christian Europe by becoming a rootless cosmopolitan; Amelie solved it in the opposite way, embracing Catholicism and the most ardent form of French nationalism. In 1883, she had announced collection of poetry, Feuillets d'album et Pensees Fugitives, a title clearly designed to honour her husband.
