Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-27
of her mother, keeps her 5000 for her.

t1di iilitTIleu Ile. AiUer SuCn tnhiib-
.rg existence, he was pleased with the
domestic quietude Of home. The new
husband was then captain, and when,
in 1867, he returned to Saint-Cyr, as an
instructor, he produced an excellent
Impression on his superiors, ON his col
leagues OF the Faculty and on his subor
iinates. The Captain and his wife lived
in the first house ON the left as you leave
the station. This house Is still standing.
Captain Boulanger, then thirty years
old, was thus described by one OF his
comrades:
"He is native OF Brittany, a copper
colored blonde, as lively and as easy in
bis manners as native OF Provence.
| He is gay and good-humored, with
| tongue as sharp as his sword" The
| photographs OF him taken at the ephoch
| do not resemble the Boulanger Of to-day
due in the main to the fact that he did
not then wear a beard, which has quito
| changed his physiognomy. When in
| repose his face used to have an express
sion that awakened feeling OF mis-
trust. There was something sus-
picious and hard in his look.
! The rapidly changing expression,
the pale blue eyes half hidden under
bushy eyebrows, the heavy lower jaw,
the rather retreating chin-there was a
something about all this that lett dis
agreeable impression. But the full beard
has hidden the defective features of the
face and rendered more prominent the
large, intelligent forehead, the fine nose
and the well-molded cheeks. ii The whole
| physiognomy has been changed. 1t you
take photograph of General Boulanger
and place it alongside Of photograph OF
! Captain Boulanger, you will be struck by
the fact that he looks younger IN the first
picture and that there is franker and
pleasanter expression in the face OF to-
day than that of twenty years ago.
But Just as he was, Captain Boulanger
charmed everybody. He was very kind
hearted and prepossessing. He had a
| tiattering word for this one and an act Of
politeness for that one. He knew how to
make himself count, and how to be on
the best of terms with his superiors with
out offending his fellow.ofiicers or his
| subordinates. Captain Boulanger was
the prime mover in the Inauguration of
the Saint-Cry dinners offered by the sub
| ordinate officers to their superiors. AL
though only Captain, he used to have
at his table Lieutenant Colonels and
even Colonels, and he would have re-
ceived the. commanding General of Saint
Cyr if the latter could have accepted the
| invitation.
At that time husband and wife were on
the best OF terms. The clouds came
| came later. Nine. Boulanger, a young
wife of imposing figure, with large brown
eyes and heavy golden hair, was proud
to see all these officers at her table, and
never wearied of singing the praises OF
her "little Captain Georges" to the other
officers wives of the post. There was
no talk then Of her excessive piety.
This, too, came later. ~
When the war of 1870 broke out Nine.
Boulanger returned to Paris with her two
daughters, where she was soon after
wards joined by her husband. few
years later the General was appointed
director Of Infantry" in the War Office.
| Then he began to be known In the army,
and then, too, his first domestic troubles
commenced. To outward appearances,
husband and wife were united.l But in
innate friends knew that the contrary
was the case. The two daughters, who
were now large girls, saw that there was
discord and clung more closely to their
mother. 1us
When the General was made Minister
of War in 1885 these strained relations
| DtCdlllt 6NluCnb w ONCi tDtut lllOb tildt
he had changed, at least in his,habits Of
work, but he had added thereto occupa-
! tions of quite a different nature. At
that time General Boulanger oled an ex-
istence that was really astounding. He
used to rise at O'Clock in the morning
and make a very careful toilet, for the
| General is very fnical in matters of
dress. Then began his well-fIled day,
| the labors of which we're often not ended
until Z, and even O'Clock atnight.
But his occupation did not end when
he had completed his official duties.
| After these serious labors camela round
ofdistractions, and it was to these that
Nine. Boulanger objected. The General,
| in a word, became habitue of the green
room of the Theatre Francais, where he
spent an hour almost every night, es-
pecially on the evenings when Mile
Reichemb berg, in whom the Minister of
War seemed to take the deepest interest,
appeared on the stage.
From this moment dates the Generals
friendship for M. Georges Lagderre, the
young and brilliant Radical Deputy, who
has since linked his fortune with that OF
Boulanger, and who, SO the quidnuncs
say, is engaged to be married to one of
his daughters. M. Laguerre was on the
best terms with Mile. Marie Durand, also
of the Francois troupe, who spoke
OF the Deputy to Mile. Reichemberg,
and she, in her turn, praised him
in the highest terms to the General.
"He is a young lawyer Of much
PROMISE" said the actress on one occa-
sion, "who processes the greatest admi-
the Deputy and the Minister. The latter
was touched by the sincere praise OF the
former. They were soon fast friends,
and this intimacy has continued to grow
stronger from month to month until the
names of Boulanger and Laguerre are
now rapidly becoming inseparably.
The meeting between Henri Rochefort
and Boulanger was brought about in
much the same way as that between
Laguerre and BoulangeI. One day, at
dinner party, the editor OF the Intran-
siqeant was making fun of the Minister of
War, when lady guest-Boulanger was
very popular with the fair sex-re-
marked: ''You do wrong to speak
in that way, particularly as the
General entertains a very high opin-
ion of you and has said to me more
than once that he considers you re-
markable man. You ought to see him
and know HIM before passing judgment
on him." Rochefort's vanity was
touched. An interview was arranged
between the ambitious officer and the
turbulent pamphleteer. Boulanger was
affable and charming, and Rochefort left
him convinced that the General was
man of parts, "full of good sense and
new ideas, rare combination in the
same individual" as he remarked to 3
friend.
| I
the actress also grew apace. Finally
ened to apply for divorce. AT one mo-
ment she was on the point Of carrying
out her threat, but was held back by her
attachment for the two dauehters whom