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Favre was made minister of foreign affairs; Gambetta, minister of the interior; and other prominent members of te Assembly filled the remaining cabinet posts. The legislature was dissolved, the Palais de Bourbon was closed, and the Empress Eugenie quitted the Tuileries and made her escape with a few attendants to Belgium, whence she sought a refuge in England.
The ci-devant aide-de-camp of an Emperor writhed under the harrow of Gambetta and Freycinet. As for Regnier, on his return to England he seems to have haunted Chislehurst.
I replied in the negative, saying that I had not even recognized him from behind, and trying to explain that it was purely by chance that I had been following him and M. Gambetta. "You know me, then?" exclaimed the future dictator somewhat sharply; whereupon I mentioned that he had been pointed out to me more than once, notably when he was in the company of M. Delescluze.
"Never," said Gambetta, "shall I consent to peace so long as France still has two hundred thousand men under arms and more than a thousand cannon to direct against the enemy!" But he was overruled by other and less fiery statesmen. Peace was made, and Gambetta retired for a moment into private life.
Gambetta, wounded, whether by accident or design none can tell, by his dearest friend, had died at the very zenith of his fame, and all France was prepared to render homage to one of her greatest sons. His body lay in state in the palace of the Chamber of Deputies, and I was fortunate enough to find myself standing at the foot of the coffin at the same moment as Victor Hugo.
"If we have a Republic in France, it will be neither the Republic of M. Gambetta nor the Republic of M. Jules Favre." "And whose Republic then?" "The Republic of M. Thiers " Whereupon the three Frenchmen began to dispute in earnest. They were very red, shouted loudly, and made violent gestures.
In November, 1881, Gambetta became the head of the cabinet; but the opposition to his policy within the republican ranks was stronger than had been anticipated. After a short time he laid down his office. He died Dec. 31, 1882. He was forced to resign in 1887 because his son-in-law was implicated in corrupt transactions. His successor was Sadi Carnot.
A dispatch had just come in from Paris, grumbling at receiving no news from the country; and Gambetta was lamenting over the impossibility of arranging for simultaneous movements, owing to the breakdown of the pigeons, and the failure of the messengers; when I said: "'There were two young English fellows with us, in the Vosges they were on Cambriels' staff last, and are now prisoners who if they were here would, I believe, get in if anyone could.
There were many conferences with the Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier, Duc de Broglie with Casimir Perier, Leon Say, Gambetta, Jules Ferry, and Freycinet where the best men on both sides tried hard to come to an agreement. W. went several times in August to see M. Thiers, who was settled at St. Germain.
Therefore the odour of honey and vinegar had not, after all, so much to do with the formation of the clever boy's character. I found the house down a dark passage. The rooms occupied by the Gambetta family are now those of a small restaurateur for the working class.
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