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Pelletan: Camille Pelletan (1846–1915), Radical Republican journalist and politician, co-director of La Justice, and a fierce opponent of Gambetta during his lifetime. That his tribute should be moving was precisely what made it significant. ↩
Claude Vignon to Camille Maupin: in Balzac's Béatrix (1839), the cold, analytical art critic Claude Vignon tells the celebrated woman writer Camille Maupin that women of great intelligence and power sacrifice their emotional, feminine capacity for love — they become too self-possessed to be truly vulnerable. ↩
Spuller: Eugène Spuller (1835–1896), Gambetta's closest personal and political associate for twenty years, who had been at his deathbed. Brisson's words of thanks to him — "I thank you for having brought him here" — are an extraordinary gesture of Republican solidarity across political lines. ↩
Brisson: Henri Brisson (1835–1912), president of the Chamber of Deputies, a moderate Republican and not a political ally of Gambetta. His tears transcended party allegiance. ↩