Eugène Henri Brisson was a French statesman, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1885-1886 and again in 1898.
Henri Brisson
Brisson early in his career.
Brisson by Guth, October 1898
Léon Gambetta was a French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed the French 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