"I found myself unable to tolerate such a lowering of republican France before Europe and I intervened. In a few minutes I made them ratify a firm policy, one of national pride."
— Léon Gambetta

January 1, 1970

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Letter to Léonie Léon (9 November 1881), quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 31