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Léon Gambetta (1838–1882): republican statesman, founder of the Third Republic and dominant figure of its early years. His oratory was legendary; Marie was a devoted admirer. The speech she quotes here was likely from the Chamber of Deputies debates of February 1881. ↩
Les Dernières Années de Marie-Antoinette (1879) by Arthur de Saint-Amand: a sentimental historical account of the Queen's final years and execution, popular with society readers in the early 1880s. ↩