- Date:
- 1865
- Original Format:
- Carte de Visite
- Item#:
- MES16840
Leon Michel Gambetta (1838-1882)
Leon Gambetta was a French statesman who after the surrender of Napoleon III was one of the proclaimers of the Republic. As Minister of the Interior in the Government of National Defense, he escaped from Paris under siege by balloon to Tours, and for five months was the dictator of France.