M. Gambetta, to whom I am giving this letter for you, is what we call in France a Republican. But he has more intellect and sound sense and true wisdom than many of the most enlightened Conservatives, and I only wish that most of the party leaders had as much. No one knows the inside of Paris better than he, or could give you fresher and more accurate news of it.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "M. Gambetta, to whom I am giving this letter for you, is what we call in France a Republican. But he has more intellect and sound sense and true wisdom than many of the most enlightened Conservatives, and I only wish that most of the party leaders had as much. No one knows the inside of Paris better than he, or could give you fresher and more accurate news of it." in the context of "Adolphe Thiers to Prince Nicolas Bibesco (4 August 1868), quoted in Paul Deschanel, Gambetta (1920), pp. 19-20" to mean that wisdom is timeless.