A Tumultuous Session
Disorder in the French Assembly as Gambetta Defends His Grenoble Speech
A dispatch from France reporting an uproar in the National Assembly after Léon Gambetta rose to defend a controversial speech, a small window into the turbulent early politics of the Third Republic.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readVERSAILLES, July 12.
There was a tumultuous scene in the assembly to-day, and the disorder finally became so great that President Buffet was obliged to suspend the sitting.
Upon resumption of the session, Gambetta ascended the tribune and addressed the assembly in defense of his speech delivered at Grenoble. He said France was revolutionary, glorified universal suffrage, and accused the majority of wishing to mutilate the minister of justice's protest against charges of Gambetta. The government, he said, was willing to accept any time delay upon its policy.
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