

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1748-6858|28|1|47-61
ISSN: 0034-6705
Source: Review of Politics, Vol.28, Iss.1, 1966-01, pp. : 47-61
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Abstract
THE election of Leo XIII on February 20, 1878, made a deep and rather favorable impression on the French statesman, Léon Gambetta. Quite inadvertently, he recorded it for posterity when, on the very day of Leo's election, he wrote to his mistress:
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