A political romance : Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82
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A political romance : Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82
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The work A political romance : Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- A political romance : Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82
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- Leon Gambetta, Leonie Leon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82
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- Susan K. Foley, Charles Sowerwine
- Language
- eng
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- Leon Gambetta is remembered for his heroic deeds during the Franco-Prussian War and as a founder of the Third Republic. His image is that of a leader of men in the male political universe of late nineteenth-century France. Historians have largely ignored his intense relationship with his lover, Leonie Leon. This relationship was both personal and epistolary, their face-to-face meetings complemented by daily letters, of which some 1100 survive. Using this unpublished correspondence, A Political Romance offers a new perspective on Gambetta, focusing on his ten-year relationship with Leon. Their partnership was political as well as passionate. Gambetta sought counsel from his 'wise Minerva' and building the Republic became their joint project. The letters also reveal the weight of contemporary gender expectations on the couple's thinking and behaviour and the social conventions that excluded Leon from 'respectable' circles. Foley and Sowerwine use this fascinating correspondence to provide a richer portrait than Gambetta's previous biographers, introducing the unknown figure of Leon and producing a unique glimpse into the political and cultural world of 1870s Paris
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- non fiction
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