Presses Universitaires de France and Frémeaux & Associés offer this biography of Léon Gambetta, analyzed and explained by Éric Anceau, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Lorraine, and specialist in the political and social history of France and Europe. Léon Gambetta (1838-1882), whose life was as brief as it was intense, was a central figure of the Third Republic. Nothing predestined this grandson of an Italian immigrant to become a statesman other than his passion for politics from an early age. Lawyer, impetuous orator, member of parliament, journalist and a brilliant mind beloved by the French, Gambetta was a key figure from the end of the Second Empire to the founding years of the Third Republic, through the Franco-Prussian War, the Commune and the first great Republican battles: those of institutions, schools, the army and France's return to the international stage. He embodied the republican spirit, the aspiration to equality and the greatness of the nation. His legacy lives on. Audiobook, in French. Claude COLOMBINI FRÉMEAUX