GAMBETTA Léon (1838-1882) homme politique. L.A.S. "Léon Gambetta", July 18, 1863, in RAMBLER; 3 pages in-8. Battle letter before a trial. "We must therefore gather all our weapons and be ready. Tomorrow evening I should already have an artillery park of the Biscayans, cannonballs with the most artificial gargoyles. Bullets! Bullets! I'm in a rage, they want to corner me and ambush me. Hurrah! I'll show them The Hour. I have rage ... He signs "Your ferocious Léon Gambetta" ... 3 L.A.S. by COQUELIN Cadet (to Princess Dolgorouki), Albert de MUN (on the relationship between the civil power and the Church), and Louis VEUILLOT (1866, on the "office of the public mind") are attached.