Elections. I am worried about Gambetta. It would be a pity if he were elected poorly or not at all. That man will reconcile a great many people to the Republic — the intransigeants are frightening.1
# Dimanche 21 août 1881
Notes
Les intransigeants: the uncompromising radical republicans of the 1880s, who refused any accommodation with monarchists or moderates.↩