Dr. Lambert, when he came to Bruyères, was as charmed as his daughter and granddaughter with the villa and its surroundings. He was delighted with the garden which Juliette had planned. But, above all, he was enraptured by the Mediterranean, which he saw for the first time, and by the view of the island of Corsica in the distance. Gazing upon this lovely prospect, the fervent classicist cried: “Ah! this is Greece. And to think that I could ever have imagined that I understood Homer and all he described! Why, I must read him again, in the light of this new experience. And I will begin this very day. Juliette, have you our old Homer here? If not, I must go and buy a copy at Cannes, at Nice, or even in Corsica, if need be.” Henceforth Dr. Lambert had no hesitation as to leaving Chauny. He wrote to his wife that the house must be sold. Juliette, as soon as the winter months were past, returned to Paris to look for a flat. Dr. Lambert, _le vieil étudiant_, as his daughter called him, would have liked to settle in the Latin quarter, but Alice was bent on the Rue de Rivoli, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, where she loved to play. And it was Alice who had her way. Besides, as Juliette explained to her father, all Revolutions began in the Rue de Rivoli, and a flat in that street would be like a place in the stalls at the theatre. FOOTNOTES: [75] _Lettres à Marcie_, III. (1837). [76] _Biographie Générale_ under “F. M. C. Fourier.” [77] With regard to this phalanstery there is a slight discrepancy in Mme. Adam’s _Souvenirs_. According to vol. i. p. 342, Condé was the phalanstery which her father, during her childhood, wished to join, whereas according to vol. ii. p. 136, that phalanstery was Guise. Probably Guise is correct. For the Condé movement had been abandoned before Juliette was born. [78] Among the latter was Donald McLaren, author of a virulent diatribe against Fourierism, published at Caledonia, Livingstone County, in 1844, entitled _The Boa Constrictor_, in which Fourier’s gospel is denounced “for the licentiousness of its principles, its hypocrisy and sinister aims.” In this connection it should be noticed that, as a concession to the prejudices of the times, Fourier never attempted to give practical application to his theories as to the relations between the sexes, to that “Phanerogamy” which is but another name for promiscuity. [79] Founded in 1841, the Brook Farm Community broke up in 1847. In his delightful story, _The Blithedale Romance_, Hawthorne describes this settlement. [80] Author of _Les Juifs, Rois de l’Epoque_, 1844. [81] _Souvenirs_, II. 216. [82] _La Réorganisation de la Société Européenne, l’Industrie ou Discussions politiques, morales et philosophiques_ and others. [83] Morley, _Life of Cobden_, 1910 ed., 760. [84] Morley, _Life of Cobden_, ed. 1910, 830. [85] _Mon Village_, Collection Hetzel, Michel Lévy Frères, Paris; Méline, Cans et Cie, Brussels. [86] See _ante_, 57. CHAPTER VIII HER PRE-WAR SALON