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Thither came Thiers, returned from his roving embassy, a mission of peace whose purpose had been defeated by the warlike movements of Gambetta's armies. Gambetta in the early days of his dictatorship wrote to Jules Favre: "France must not entertain one thought of peace."
But we associate Napoleon's clearness of vision with personal selfishness. Here was a nation in which every private soldier outdid Napoleon in his determination to see in warfare not great principles nor picturesque traditions, but hard facts; and yet the fire of their patriotism was hotter than Gambetta's.
Ministers, while his power lasted, simply obeyed his commands. There were some amusing, gossipy stories told in Bordeaux of Thiers' entrance into possession of Gambetta's bachelor quarters at the Prefecture. "Pah! what a smell of tobacco!" he is said to have cried, as he strutted into his deposed rival's study.
I now assisted him to point his pistol toward the spot where I judged his adversary to be standing, and cautioned him to listen well and further guide himself by my fellow-second's whoop. Then I propped myself against M. Gambetta's back, and raised a rousing "Whoop-ee!" This was answered from out the far distances of the fog, and I immediately shouted: "One two three FIRE!"
The whole question having given rise to a good deal of controversy among writers on the Franco-German War some of them regarding Conlie as a flagrant proof of Gambetta's mismanagement of military affairs I will here set down what I believe to be strictly the truth respecting it.
I said I must be allowed to act under a French name, so that I might be shielded from obloquy in my country, in case of fatal results. He winced here, probably at the suggestion that dueling was not regarded with respect in America. However, he agreed to my requirement. This accounts for the fact that in all the newspaper reports M. Gambetta's second was apparently a Frenchman.
A few weeks later they came back to France together, and occupied the little country house, Les Jardies, in which, some decades later, occurred Gambetta's mysterious death. What is the secret of this strange love, which in the woman seems to be not precisely love, but something else? Balzac was always eager for her presence.
Chanzy, as previously mentioned, modified his plans, in accordance with Gambetta's views, on the evening of January 12. The new orders were that the 16th Army Corps should retreat on Laval by way of Chassille and Saint Jean-sur-Erve, that the 17th, after passing Conlie, should come down to Sainte Suzanne, and that the 21st should proceed from Conlie to Sille-le-Guillaume.
Edmond About, in the Soir, eats dirt for having a few days ago suggested an armistice. At the Quartier-Général I do not think that very great importance is attached to Gambetta's despatch, except as an evidence that the provinces are not perfectly apathetic.
Politics in Paris in 1877 An Oration by Gambetta the Balloting The Republic Saved Gambetta's Funeral A Member of the Reform Club The Century Club A Draught of Turpentine and Soda The "Press Gang" at the Reform James Payn and William Black George Augustus Sala and Sir John Robinson Disraeli's Triumph in 1878 A European Tour.
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