"I am only saddened by the help foreigners obtain from my electoral opponents at home. It is very sad to see the extreme (radical) republican party losing even the notion of patriotism."
— Léon Gambetta

January 1, 1970

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Letter to the Marquise Arconati Visconti (19 February 1881), quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 31