A Political Romance: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-82
Book Details
Author(s)
S. Foley, C. Sowerwine
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230206867
ISBN-13
9780230206861
Availability
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Sales Rank
#6,904,344
Category
History
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
