My first Christmas as a family was wonderful. Danielle has been crawling around the house faster that we can keep track of her. She keeps getting into papers and tossing them around the room. Claude has started to keep everything in a raised cupboard. She has also started to stand up against the wall or tables. Hopefully she will walk in the next couple of months. Rosalie came in from Versailles this year and she spent a lot of time playing with Danielle, they have this thing. Perhaps Danielle knows that the first person she saw in this world was Rosalie. Oh well, who know's about these things.
So much has changed in the past couple of months. In August, the state claimed partial bankruptcy. Payments from the treasury were suspended and in November, Augustine-Martin Lottin released his proposal to the Catalogue chronologique des libraries et des libraires-imprimeurs de Paris which is simply a catalog of the most influential printers since 1470. I was informed of this as they would like to mention my father in the text. I don't think Claude is too happy about this, either because he was not mentioned himself or because he does not want to draw unnecessary attention to our print shop. He has begun printing Les Autres Idees on a weekly basis again.
He claims that there is absolutely nothing to worry about as the Parlement of Paris released an arret on December 5 giving the "first legal sanction to the abstract principle". I'm not exactly sure of what that means but he seems to feel that it has given him the right to print whatever he feels is intellectual and will help other citizens of France. Things seems to be changing very quickly. Claude has now begun to put more time into the pamphlet and no longer tries to hide it from the other men in the shop. Although he does not trust them with the printing of Les Autres Idees, he has been taking ideas and viewpoints from the other men in the shop. They seem willing to support his cause.