O GAMBETTA E A REPÚBLICA

 O nobre Leon Gambetta virou republicano, existe sempre uma ovelha ranhosa na família!...

 

 

Leon Gambetta proclaiming the Republic of France, 4th September 1870 (1882-1884).

 

 

French Jacobinism and ideology

 Léon Gambetta, French Opportunist Republican that influenced Portuguese Republicanism

 Some idealistic students, politicians, free-thinkers and dissidents were inspired by the founding of the French Third Republic in 1870, and hoped that a similar regime could be installed in Portugal. The intellectual style was heavily middle class and urban, and hardly concealed its cultural mimicry of the French Republic.

 Most of the Republican leadership were from the same generation, many of the best educated in the country and heavily influenced by the French positivist Comte and the socialist Proudhon: both democratic and nationalist.

The ideology after 1891 was peppered with municipal autonomy, political and economic democracy, universal male suffrage, direct elections for legislative assemblies, a national militia instead of a professional army, the secularization of education and the separation of Church and State, all tenets copied from French revolutionaries.

By some, the writings of Léon Gambetta, a proponent of opportunistic republicanism, or the socialist leader, Jean Jaurès, were read and admired by students at the University of Coimbra.

After the period of monarchist revanchism in France had waned, and the daily Sud Express rail service between Lisbon and Paris was established in 1887, the leftist French Jacobin influence grew stronger in Portugal, especially because it counteracted the national humiliation caused by the British ultimatum of 1890.

These liberal ideas were encouraged by the French Republic (in 1870) and the Brazilian Republic (in 1889), although the 1789 Revolution was considered an inspiration and model.

Their ideology was very inclusive and "vague" enough to attract a variety of supporters, and the manner in which the Republican party developed, allowed it to avoid narrow partisan appearances; it was an ideology easily promoted by revolutionary evangelists such as the journalist João Chagas, Magalhães Lima, Basílio Teles, Guerra Junqueiro or França Borges.

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O articulista mantem-se fiel aos seus ideais.

 

FAMILIA REAL GAMBETTA

 

OS "GAMBETTA" LLEVAN:En campo de oro una pierna de gules. Jefe de azur con tres estrellas de oro
y un creciente de plata.

O apelido Gambetta é italiano, originário de Liguria (Genovés)

É  un diminutivo da palavra italiana "gamba" = 'perna', da mesma origem da palavra francesa  "jambe" e da espanhola  "jamba" que é usada  na arquitectura.

Da  histórica e fascinante região  italiana de Veneza, surgiram várias  famílias nobres, incluindo a distinta  família GAMBETTA.