Théophile Delcassé
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Théophile Delcassé was a French politician who served as foreign minister from 1898 to 1905. He is best known for his hatred of Germany and efforts to secure alliances with Russia and the United Kingd
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Delcassé caricatured by Guth for Vanity Fair, 1899
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.
Théophile Delcassé
…efforts to secure alliances with Russia and the United Kingdom that became the Entente Cordiale. He belonged to the Radical Party and was a protege of Léon Gambetta. Delcassé was born on 1 March 1852, at Pamiers, in the Ariège département. He wrote articles on foreign affairs for the République Française and Le…
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