2-365-205 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Leon Gambetta proclaiming the Republic of France, 4th September 1870 (1882-1884). After the disastrous defeat of the French by the Prussians at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, General Jules Trochu and Leon Gambetta overthrew the Second Empire and established a Government of National Defence, which would become the Third Republic. A print from La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles, Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884.