Adolphe Thiers
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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republ
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1870s
The Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Thiers's first employer in Paris
Prince Talleyrand, Thiers's political mentor, in 1828
First page of Histoire de la Révolution française
Léon Gambetta
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Léon Gambetta was a French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed the Third Republic in 1870 and played a prominent role in its early government.
Gambetta photographed by Étienne Carjat
Carte de visite of Léon Gambetta by Lége, Paris.
Gambetta proclaiming the French Republic from the Hôtel de Ville, in a painting by Howard Pyle
Photo of Gambetta by Nadar, 1871