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A Political Romance

Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-82
By:S. Foley; C. Sowerwine
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230206861
eText ISBN:9780230369481
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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Léon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léonie Léon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover and politician, the unknown figure of Léon, and the political and cultural world of 1870s Paris.