FOOTNOTES:
[9] Gambetta's former assistant during the national defence after the first disasters; a brilliant organizer, but in general policy a nolonté, to use the term Gambetta coined about him on the basis of the word volonté. As Minister of Public Works he initiated at this period great improvements in the internal development of France, especially in the railways.
[10] Especially as to the unlimited revision of the constitution and the immediate separation of Church and State.
[11] Gambetta's contempt for the parochialism of the elections by district was great. He felt that departmental tickets would favor the choice of better men. One must remember how large a proportion of the French Deputies are physicians to appreciate the scorn of Gambetta's saying that the scrutin d'arrondissement produced a lot of sous-vétérinaires, that is, men who were not even decent "horse-doctors."
[12] M. Fallières took the place of Duclerc as President of the Council during the last days.
[13] The French claimed that a government official had been lured over the frontier and illegally arrested.