[66] _Souvenirs_, II. 155. [67] _Ibid._, 147. [68] _Souvenirs_, II. 214. [69] _Souvenirs_, II. 166. [70] _Souvenirs_, II. 85. [71] _Garibaldi: Sa vie d’après Documents Inédits, avec un portrait_, Paris, 1859. [72] _Souvenirs_, II. 315. [73] _Souvenirs_, II. 317. [74] _Souvenirs_, II. 421. CHAPTER VII AMONG THE UTOPIANS 1858-1864 “Often in the years that are darkening around me, I remember our beautiful scheme of a noble and unselfish life and how fair in that first summer appeared the prospect that it might endure for generations.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Blithedale Romance_. “_Moi qui ait vécu une partie de ma jeunesse avec des cabétiens, des phalansteriens, des saint-simonians._”—Mme. Adam, _Souvenirs_. Juliette’s energy was crowding her life with a variety of interests and occupations: literary work, plays, parties, picture shows and two distinct sets of acquaintances: Mme. d’Agoult’s rather aristocratic and elegant republican friends, and a much less fashionable circle. While Mme. d’Agoult and her associates concentrated on political reform, coming more and more into prominence in Parisian society was another group of reformers, the collectivists, who were followers of Fourier and Saint-Simon. They, placing little faith in politics, were working for a social revolution. With the latter’s schemes for humanity’s regeneration, her father’s enthusiasm had already made Juliette familiar. But we, too, if we would enter into her life at this time, must take note of these somewhat Bohemian reformers and of their Utopian aspirations, which, stimulating many of Juliette’s most intimate friends, could not fail to affect her own mind and character.