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Place Gambetta

From the Dauphin to Gambetta

On the occasion of the marriage between the Dauphin (the future King Loius XVI) and Marie-Antoinette, the square was first named “Place Dauphin”, then rebaptised “Place Nationale” in 1790 the same year that the white royal flag was replaced by the Tricolour (blue, white and red). The square was renamed “Place Gambetta” in 1883 after the French politician Léon Gambetta who, as Home Secretary in the temporary government of the III Republic during the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870/1, established a French government in Bordeaux.