Page "Silent majority" Paragraph 4

In 1883, an anonymous author calling himself " A German " wrote a memorial to Léon Gambetta, published in The Contemporary Review, a British quarterly.

Describing French Conservatives of the 1870s, the writer opined that " their mistake was, not in appealing to the country, but in appealing to it in behalf of a Monarchy which had yet to be defined, instead of a Republic which existed ; for in the latter case they would have had the whole of that silent majority with them.