Notes
Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French republican statesman and orator, founder of the Third Republic and a leading figure of the anti-clerical left. Marie's animosity toward him is political: she was an ardent Bonapartist. ↩
O rus! — "O countryside!" Horace, Satires II.6. The celebrated exclamation of longing for rural retirement; Marie uses it ironically to express her boredom with actual rural life. ↩