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Room in which Gambetta died

Item

Title

Room in which Gambetta died

Artist

Dorothy Tennant

Lent By

the artist

Catalog Number

44

Catalog Page

7

Catalog Description

Gambetta died in his villa, near Paris, at midnight, on Tuesday, December 31st, 1882. At the Palais Bourbon, his official residence as President of the Chamber, Gambetta had lived in much splendour, for he believed in the importance of surrounding the highest officers, even of a democracy, with state and maginificence; but this picture shows how small and unpretending was the private house of the greatest man in France. Across the bed is a tri-colour, the national flag of France, in which the body was afterwards wrapped--a fitting shroud for a man who loved his country.