Place Gambetta

This guide to Place Gambetta in Bordeaux opens with a strange absence: an eighty-centimetre plaster miniature is the only trace of Leon Gambetta on display in the city today. It follows the monumental statue sculpted by Jules Dalou and unveiled on the Allees de Tourny in 1905, and its forced move in 1961 when the city dug an underground car park there. You'll hear how the piece was resettled here, in the very square that already carried Gambetta's name. Look around these garden paths for any sign of the statue that once stood among them.