[36] The edition from which I quote is that of 1870 in four volumes. The suppressed edition of 1858, according to Mme. Adam’s _Souvenirs_, II. 66, was in three volumes. In a few years the condemnation was removed and permission given to Proudhon to return to France. He elected, however, to remain in Belgium. [37] _La Justice dans la Révolution et dans l’Eglise_ (ed. 1870), vol. iv. 203. [38] Her best-known works are a novel, _Nélida_, and her _History of the Revolution of 1848_. [39] Proudhon, _La Justice_, vol. iv. 140. [40] _Souvenirs_, II. 68. [41] M. Michel Lévy on his death in 1875, was succeeded as head of the firm by M. Calmann Lévy, father of the M. Calmann Lévy, who to-day presides over the business at 3, rue Auber. [42] _Souvenirs_, II. 74. [43] A brilliant and fashionable journalist of the day, who was also a poet and critic. His best-known work is _Le Nain Jaune_. Later, Mme. Lamessine was to see him frequently. [44] _Myosotis._ [45] For the discussion of _Denise_ at the Poet’s Union see _Souvenirs_, II. 49. [46] _Souvenirs_, II. 75. [47] _Souvenirs_, II. 79. [48] _Ibid._, 80. [49] Referring to the unhappiness of her married life. [50] _Souvenirs_, II. 81. [51] Her reply to Alphonse Karr’s article on the crinoline. See _ante_, 44. [52] _An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit_ (1903), 57. CHAPTER VI SALON LIFE DURING THE SECOND EMPIRE 1858-1863 “_Le Salon était alors ... l’ambition suprême de la Parisienne, la consolation de sa maturité, la gloire de sa vieillesse._”—Daniel Stern (la Comtesse d’Agoult). Dr. Lambert was right. Juliette’s book brought her influential friendships and distinguished acquaintances. It flung her right into the whirl of Parisian literary and political society. The two women writers, whom _Idées Anti-Proudhoniennes_ had defended, both wrote to thank their young champion. Of George Sand’s letter and of the friendship which some years later ensued between her and Juliette we shall hear much in another chapter. La Comtesse d’Agoult (Daniel Stern), after having read Juliette’s book, wrote to her— “It is surprising, sir, that you should have assumed a woman’s name, while we women write under masculine pseudonyms.”[53] “I replied to her,” writes Juliette, “that I was a woman, and very much a woman.”