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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3980, 30 September 1881, Page 2

Gambetta, the other day, visited his father .at Cahors his birth place,. Anyone walking through Cahors sees, to this day* provincial shop resembling a country store in an Australian township,.with crockery* ware, sugar, and treacle in the window, and a large board with the name of Gambet ta, Jeune, et Cie., fastened over the door* This was, not very long ago, the home of M. Gambetta's father, and it was among the brooms and brushes that stand in front of the door, that the present President of the Chamber of Deputies, and the probable future President of the French Republic, played as a boy. Gambetta pere has ceded the apron of office to a successor, but he still lives at Cahors. . There was * such a vast crowd (though Cahors is but a poor place) and such an officious r struggling forward of mayor and prefect, councillors'general, and soldiers that the old man had some ado to reach, the spot where the great man descended. Gambetta threw himself on his father's neck with the effusiveness of a child of the South, and shod genuine tears of emotion as he embraced him. The shop bearing his name was hung with flags; the deputations read addresses of welcome all the way to the hotel aud ories of \* Vive la France," " Vive Gambetta," "Vive la Republique," resounded iv every direc* tion,