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  Léon Gambetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gambetta returned to France in June, was elected by three departments in July, and began to agitate for the definitive establishment of the Republic.
Gambetta was unwillingly entrusted by Grévy on November 24, 1881 with the formation of a ministry-known as Le Grand Ministère.
Gambetta rendered France three inestimable services: by preserving her self-respect through the gallantry of the resistance he organized during the German War, by his tact in persuading extreme partisans to accept a moderate Republic, and by his energy in overcoming the usurpation attempted by the advisers of Marshal MacMahon.
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 Léon Gambetta
Gambetta seized his opportunity and assailed both the coup d'état and the government with an eloquence of invective which made him immediately famous.
Gambetta himself constantly urged her to marry him during this period, but she always refused, fearing to compromise his career; she remained, however, his confidante and intimate adviser in all his political plans.
On Gambetta the influence of Léonie was absorbing, both as lover and as politician, and the correspondence which has been published shows how much he depended upon her.
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 AllRefer.com - LEon Gambetta (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Gambetta bitterly fought French capitulation and briefly retired from politics, but after 1871 he devoted himself to the creation of the Third Republic.
After the resignation of Adolphe Thiers as president, Gambetta pursued a policy of moderation and compromise and opposed both the radical republicans with whom he had been identified earlier in his career, and the monarchists and conservatives.
Under President GrEvy, Gambetta was briefly premier (1881–82), but his attempt to strengthen the executive power and to reconcile French political and social factions was unsuccessful, and his suggested electoral reform was widely denounced.
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 BookRags: Léon Gambetta Biography
Léon Gambetta was born at Cahors on April 2, 1838, the son of a grocer from Genoa and his French wife.
Gambetta became minister of the interior in the provisional government of national defense.
Gambetta played the key role in rallying republican forces during the May 16, 1877, crisis that led to President MacMahon's resignation, but it was his last important success.
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 Metropole Paris - Maison des Jardies
The house is on the steep avenue Gambetta in Sèvres.
Léon Gambetta was born in 1838 in Cahors.
Gambetta created, for the first time, the post of Minister for Agriculture; in effect giving the majority of the population their own minister for the first time.
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 Léon Gambetta
Gambetta seized his opportunity and assailed both the coup and the government with an eloquence of invective which made him immediately famous.
In May 1869 he was returned to the Assembly, both by the first circumscription of Paris and by Marseilles, defeating Hippolyte Carnot for the former constituency and Adolphe Thiers and Ferdinand de Lesseps for the latter.
Gambetta was unwillingly entrusted by Grévy on the 14th of November 1881 with the formation of a ministry -- known as Le Grand Ministère.
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 LEON GAMBETTA AND LEONIE LEON
Leon Gambetta was the true type of the southern Frenchman--what his countrymen call a meridional.
As Gambetta rolled forth his sentences, superb in their rhetoric and all ablaze with that sort of intense feeling which masters an orator in the moment of his triumph, the face of the lady in the gallery responded to him with wonderful appreciation.
As Gambetta was speaking, of a sudden he saw before him, at the extremity of the room, the lady of his dreams, the sphinx of his waking hours, the woman who four years earlier had torn up the note which he addressed to her, but who more recently had kept his written words.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Léon Gambetta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gambetta, Léon GAMBETTA, LÉON [Gambetta, Léon], 1838-82, French republican leader.
An associate of Léon Gambetta, he waged (1889) a campaign against General Boulanger in the journal République française.
A leather merchant, he served in the Franco-Prussian War and became an undersecretary for commerce and colonies in the cabinet of Léon Gambetta (1881-82).
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 GAMBETTA, LEON (1838-1... - Online Information article about GAMBETTA, LEON (1838-1...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gambetta was unwillingly entrusted by Grevy on the 14th of November 1881 with the formation of a ministry—known as Le See also:
Gambetta rendered France three inestimable services: by preserving her self-respect through the gallantry of the resistance he organized during the See also:
German War, by his tact in persuading extreme partisans to accept a moderate Republic, and by his energy in overcoming the usurpation attempted by the advisers of Marshal MacMahon.
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 Gambetta Léon - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gambetta Léon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gambetta, Léon (1838-1882), French lawyer and statesman, who played a leading part in the formation of the Third Republic.
This obituary for Léon Gambetta appeared in The Times of January 2, 1883.
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 Paris Siege Balloon paper model from Fiddlersgreen.net
Its passenger, snug in a long greatcoat and fur hat, was the most important traveler who would ride a siege balloon -Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta, whose mission was to reinvigorate the faltering government in Tours and to organize and rally an army.
Local peasants rescued Gambetta, and a pigeon was sent homing back to Paris with the eagerly awaited news that he had landed safely and was proceeding to Tours.
One of them carried the French politician Leon Gambetta, who was wounded in the hand by a shot from a Prussian rifleman, but nevertheless escaped to revive French spirits.
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 Gambetta Léon Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Léon Gambetta was one of the founders of the French Third Republic.
In 1870, after the defeat of Sedan, the French Emperor was captured by the Prussians.
Gambetta was then quickly appointed Minister of the Interior in Paris, where the resistance was being organized.
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 Photograph: Statue of Leon Gambetta in Cahors, Lot, France. Gambetta was a 19th century French republican and prime ...
Photograph: Statue of Leon Gambetta in Cahors, Lot, France.
Gambetta was a 19th century French republican and prime minister of France.
Statue of Leon Gambetta in Cahors, Lot, France.
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 Portsmouth Herald Obituaries from September 22, 2000
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Leon J. Gambetta, 58, died unexpectedly Monday, Sept. 18, 2000.
He is survived by his loving daughters, Jeannine (Gambetta) Lewis of Pompano Beach, Fla., and Christine Elaine Gambetta of Dover; his longtime friend and companion, Colleen Shepard; his father, O. George Gambetta of New Port Richey, Fla.; and a brother, David Gambetta of Littleton, Colo.
GAMBETTALeon J. Gambetta, 58, of South Berwick, Maine, died Sept. 18, 2000.
www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/9_22obit.htm   (702 words)

  
 Gambetta, Léon - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Gambetta, Léon - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
Under President Grévy, Gambetta was briefly premier (1881-82), but his attempt to strengthen the executive power and to reconcile French political and social factions was unsuccessful, and his suggested electoral reform was widely denounced.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks.
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 New Hotel Select - Saint Charles train station. Marseille, 13001, France - Discounted rates at www.bookings.net
The underground (Saint Charles or Noailles stop station) is nearby the hotel, and Gambetta car park is in front of the hotel - all of this illustrates the practicality of this hotel.
When you are on the Avenue Gambetta you have the New Hotel Select on your left.
From the train station St Charles: Walk down the stairs of the train station, take the big boulevard d'Athènes, the hotel will be on your left at the corner of the Gambetta Avenue.
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 eBay.co.uk - Leon France, Maps, Non-Fiction Books, Books, Comics Magazines items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
M LEON GAMBETTA 1877 ANTIQUE PRINT PORTRAIT FRANCE
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LEON GAMBETTA PARIS PRIME MINISTER FRANCE PRINT 1883
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Leon Gambetta: The Belleville Manifesto, 1869
Modern History Sourcebook: Leon Gambetta: The Belleville Manifesto, 1869
Gambetta was a republican leader who opposed Napoleon III's "Second Empire".
He took part in the provisional government after the overthrow of the Empire following the defeat by Prussia in 1870.
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 Leon Bakst - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Leon Bakst - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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Search for books about your topic, "Leon Bakst"
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 Famous Affinities of History - Leon Gambetta and Leonie Leon (By Lyndon Orr)
Famous Affinities of History - Leon Gambetta and Leonie Leon (By Lyndon Orr)
Leon Gambetta was the true type of the southern Frenchman–what his countrymen call a meridional.
The Wives of General Houston • Lola Montez and King Ludwig of Bavaria • Leon Gambetta and Leonie Leon • Lady Blessington and Count D'Orsay • Byron and the Countess Guiccioli • The Story of Mme.
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 Translation of Poilu's Day December 2526 1915. With you and by you we will vow to save France. Lon Gambetta. WWI Posters
Two French soldiers, one sitting down and going through a small box of supplies sent from home.
Léon Gambetta (1838-1882) was one of the founders of the Third Republic and was regarded as one of the heroes of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
He became premier of France for a short while in 1881.
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 Glossary of Organisations: Fr
During the First World War, it took a social-chauvinist stand, its parliamentary group voted for war credits, and its members were in the bourgeois government.
The F.S.P. split at its Tours Congress, December 25-30, 1920; the majority formed the Communist Party of France, while the Right-wing opportunist minority, led by Leon Blum, left the Congress and formed their own party, retaining the old name of the French Socialist Party.
The resolution moved by Bourderon at the F.S.P. Congress in December 1915 was rejected by a majority.
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 Find in a Library: Gambetta and the making of the Third Republic
Gambetta and the making of the Third Republic
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gambetta, Lon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Leon Gambetta Quotes
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 French School Posters Prints - Allegory of the French Republic Depicting Adolphe Thiers, Leon Gambetta and Victor Hugo ...
French School Posters Prints - Allegory of the French Republic Depicting Adolphe Thiers, Leon Gambetta and Victor Hugo Art Giclee Print - Artist: French School - Poster Size: 24x18 - SHOP.COM
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