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On the Boulevard Gambetta, Cahors, evening of juni 30.

bwilsonduncan has just bagged a fierce bière grande.

Every town in Frant's has a Rue Gambetta or Boulevard Gambetta. Cahors has special claim to him, however. He was born here in 1838.

Léon Gambetta was a great french statesman at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, most renowned for escaping from the besieged Paris by hot air ballon.