In September the formation of the Third Republic enabled him to return, but he soon left Paris to travel in the East, whence he returned with a fine art collection, particularly of Japanese objects.
The Third Republic can never forget that it was to the support of the temporal sovereignty of the pope that Napoleon III.
On the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he offered his services to Gambetta, was appointed prefect of the department of Tarn-etGarronne, and in October became chief of the military cabinet.
The leading socialist and trade union cliques have their roots intertwined with those of the ruling stratum of the Third Republic.
