"At this moment I have only one preoccupation: after our fruitless efforts to drive out the foreigner to try to save at least our Republican institutions."
— Léon Gambetta

January 1, 1970

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Letter to his father (19 February 1871), quoted in J. P. T. Bury, Gambetta and the Making of the Third Republic (1973), p. 21