Jules Ferry
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Jules François Camille Ferry was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883
André Gill's cartoon on Ferry, where he eats a gingerbread priest (1878)
Portrait of Ferry by Léon Bonnat
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