For the time, this child of thirteen had saved her father’s liberty, perhaps his life. But she had not placed him out of danger, because she had not cured him of plotting against the Government. Henceforth, indeed, until Dr. Lambert’s death, his daughter was to live in constant dread of her father’s so embroiling himself with the authorities as to be clapped into prison or even deported. The episode we have just related was only the first of many times when he narrowly escaped arrest. When, years later, Juliette was living with her father in Paris and he was late in returning to meals, she always expected to hear that he was in prison. Not long after this domiciliary visit, in the spring of 1850, Dr. Lambert entertained the idea of giving up his practice at Blérancourt, and joining one of the phalansteries or socialistic communities then in vogue. However, he listened to the entreaties of his family and renounced this project. “Juliette,” said Mme. Seron to her granddaughter, “how can you wish a country to be led by persons so wild as your father?” “And, for the moment,” writes Juliette, “I agreed with her.” FOOTNOTES: [8] _Souvenirs_, I. 247. [9] _Biographie Générale_ under “Ledru-Rollin.” [10] See _post_, 243. [11] _Souvenirs_, I. 272. [12] _Souvenirs_, I. 280. [13] _Ibid._, 281. [14] _Souvenirs_, I. 295. [15] _Souvenirs_, I. 300. [16] _Souvenirs_, I. 348. [17] Trélat, Minister of Education, so Dr. Lambert had told Juliette, had been one of the bitterest opponents of the National Workshops. But, seeing the danger of closing them suddenly, he had proposed to dismiss the workmen gradually, and he had appointed his son-in-law, Lalanne, to reorganise the whole movement. But it was too late.—_Souvenirs_, I. 298-9. [18] Nineteen hundred thousand is the number given by Professor Guérard.—_French Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century_, 201. [19] _Souvenirs_, I. 305. [20] _Souvenirs_, I. 325. [21] _Souvenirs_, I. 317. [22] _Ibid._, 326. [23] _Souvenirs_, I. 328. [24] _Ibid._, 329. [25] _Souvenirs_, I. 337. CHAPTER IV FIRST MARRIAGE AND PARIS 1849-1858 “_Je vais devenir quelqu’un. J’irai à Paris._”—Mme. Adam, _Roman de mon Enfance_.