Opportunists

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 616

Opportunists, in French politics, are those who, like Gambetta, Ferry, and others like-minded, oppose doctrinaire as well as extreme views, accommodate themselves in great measure to the circumstances of the hour, and aim only at what can obviously be carried through.

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