Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An tsara shi a cikin Tsaron Kasa, Girardet ya shaida faduwar mulkin mallaka
a watan Yulin 1848 kuma ya gudu zuwa Brienz, Switzerland, inda ya zana zane-zane. A shekara ta 1850, ya koma Faransa don nuna wani babban aiki da Alfred Mame ya shirya game da tarihi da abubuwan tarihi na Touraine. Wannan aikin ya sami lambar yabo ta farko a "Exposition Universelle" na 1855 kuma ya sami Girardet ƙarin kwamitocin da Mame ya yi, musamman don littattafan yara da ayyukan ibada.