Leo XIII: “The Diplomat Pope”

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: