C Sowerwine: 1 book
A Political Romance
Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-82
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Léon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léonie Léon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover and politician, the unknown figure of Léon, and the political and cultural world of 1870s Paris.
