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Gambetta may refer to:
- Gambetta (surname)
- Gambetta (Paris Métro)
- French armoured cruiser Léon Gambetta, ship of the French Navy, 1901–1915
- Léon Gambetta class cruiser, class of ships of the French Navy
Gambetta is a station of the Paris Métro. It serves Line 3 and is the southern terminus of Line 3bis. It was opened on 25 January 1905 when the line was extended from Père Lachaise and was the eastern terminus of the line until 27 November 1921, when the line was extended to Porte des Lilas. In 1969, the former Martin Nadaud station—which was only 232 metres west of Gambetta—was combined with Gambetta by linking Martin Nadaud's closed platforms with Gambetta by tunnel. On 23 March 1971 the line to Porte des Lilas was separated from line 3 and became Line 3bis. The beginning of the old tunnel to Porte des Lilas now connects the platforms of lines 3 and 3bis. On 2 April 1971 line 3 was extended to Gallieni.
The station is in the Avenue Gambetta, which is named after the statesman Léon Gambetta (1838–82), Prime Minister for 66 days in 1881 and 1882.
Gambetta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Beppe Gambetta, Italian musician
- Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist
- Gianmarco Gambetta, Peruvian footballer
- Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French statesman
- Schubert Gambetta (1920–1991), Uruguayan footballer
Usage examples of "gambetta".
Leon Gambetta was as unprepossessing in person as he was in reputation—short, fat, bearded, of swarthy and oily complexion, looking very much what he was, the son of an immigrant Genoese grocer—and, for a time, Rouleau wondered how the man could nervously eye both of the far-apart balloons at once, until he realized that Gambetta's left eye was of glass, and disconcertingly independent of his good one.
He and Gambetta and Spuller had to clamber down, in full view of a crowd of amazed, admiring and amused peasants.
When the surrounding Prussians learned that one of the aérostats had carried Minister Gambetta safely out to the unoccupied provinces, they sent a hurried message to the gunworks at Essen in the Rhineland.
So far, it has carried various other important passengers besides the Minister Gambetta, and perhaps a million letters, newspapers, dispatches—and hundreds of pigeons, most of which have dutifully flown back bearing their cargoes of micro-messages.
Lucrezia Gambetta: Second governor general of Luna for the World Federation.
To drink I had got Sam to buy me two bottles of Bordeaux and two bottles of Sancerre from D'agneau et Fils in the Place Gambetta, Calais.
For when he was pressed to make good his charge and must rake up some excuse for it somehow, by a piece of luck he thinks of a morning when he saw Betty Harlowe in the street of Gambetta near to the shop of Jean Cladel.