, 1888-05-17
LEAD. A GAY LIFE.


SRxzioSs TO AN ACTRESS LEAD TO DoMEs.
TIC rRouBLxs--THE GENERALS PARENT
AGE AND HIS WILD BRoTHER-wHy HIS |
WIFE BECAME A oATHoLIo-DIscoRp IN
his yAMILY.
General Boulanger is descended from an
Ancient family OF Brittany. His father
was born at Rennes. Alter studying law
In that city he married young English
woman, Miss Griffith, q native Of Wales,
whose family had settled at Rennes after
the peace Of 1915. Al that time the cheap
nsss Of living in Brittany attracted many
strAishtensd households from the other
side Of the channel. This was the case With
The 0rifsths.
Tho generals father was OF medium
height, Of . nervous temperament and stiff
In his manners. He always wore NOUS
AacAs and goatse, which gave him mill
tary air. In politics he was An ardent Bon.
apartist and an active member Of the inn
psriaiist electoral committee Of mis- city
DISTRICT This 10 one Of the reasons why
The political opponents OF his son declare
that the general 10 now backed secretly by
The Bonapsrtists and is trying to play the
role Of Napoleonic Cesar
n. Boulanger left three children, son
named Ernest, another son. Georges (tbe
seaeraD, and . daughter, who is to-day
shout 50 and married to M. Le Predour,
naval commissary at Lorient and nephew
Of Admiral lie Predour. Nine. lie Predour
y on bad terms with her brother. the gen.
eral, whom she never sees.
THE GENERALLY BROTHERS.
The newspapers often confuse the two
brothers, calling the general, Ernest. One
of General Boulanger's names is indeed
Ernest. but In the family his elder brother
was alone known by that name.
curious story Is attached to Ernest
B0ulanger. Three or four years ago, when
the general was minister OF war, a murder
or. under the sssum ed name of Canipi, was
condemned to DEATH Throughout the
trial the culprit refused to reveal his ident.
ity. M. Laguerre, Campis cousel declared
that his client would not make himself
known out of regard for relative who
held high rank in the army and who
would receive terrible blow If the truth
we're told. The assassin was guillotined,
and the public, misled by the Triboullet,
lister Of war who had been beheaded. Many
people still cling to this notion, although
there 10 not q word Of truth in the report.
The generals only rother, Ernest,
would be TO day 55. But Campi II he had
lived would be scarcely 30. But what gave
some ground to this false rumor was the
siddy existence and mysterious disappear
ance Of Ernest Boulsnger. After having
led a. . young man such wild life that
the family would never pronounce his
name, he disappeared. His cronies say
that he went TO the United States and was
killed In the war Of secession, but whether
ON the northern or the southern side no.
body seems to know.
Nine. B0u,anger, who still lives, and OF
whom shall have something to say fur
ther on, gave birth to George at Rennes in
the house OF her parents. This happened on
April 20, 1887. The boy was educated at
the college Of Nantes. and on January 49,
1855. before he was Is, entered Saint-Cyr,
the French West Point.
BoULAHoFR's ARMY RECORD.
Gen. Boulanger has served in difelent
the Algerian tirailleurs he fought In the
italian campaign, and was wounded full
in the breast at Turbgo he has seen SER
vice in Cochin China from 1867 to 1870
he was attached to the Saint-Cyr corps of
Instructors he was wounded in the shoul-
der nj the head of his regiment in the war
OF 1870; he has commanded O cavalry bri-
gade; he heaGed the French delegation to
Yorktown in 1881; he was chief of the in
faRtry bureau in the war department; he
commanded the French expedition to Tu-
mis- in 1882 he was minister of war nearly
two years, and finally commander in chief
Of the Thirteenth army corps at Clermont-
Ferrand,
Apropos of his wound at Turbigo, Bou-
LANCER relates himself the following anec.
dots. heard 1t from his own lips some
time ago.
II commanded that day a platoon of
turcos, or native Algerians. The fight was
ufif thn A tsta
Suddenly noticed q Tyrolese soldier TAX
ing aim ut me but before l had time to
move, his ball had struck me in the abdo.
men. i reeled, and just as was falling
saw one Of my turcos strike down the Tyro.
lese with bayonet thrust. During the
wounded were picked up. lay in ditch,
bleeding terribly, with this Tyrolese at my
side. But the Poor fellow died before
nightfall."
Boulanger's second wound was received
in the arm, and was made bv an Anamite
lance In Cochin China. Saint-Cyr cadets
between 1869 and 1870 remember seeing
their instructor going about with his arm
in sling and with a slit in his uniform,
for he could not put the wounded member
in sleeve.
Boulanger was wounded again at the
siege of Paris, and the fourth time during
the suppression Of the Commune.
HIS MARRIAGE.
1t was in 1854 that Gen. Boulanger was
married at the Eglise de la Trinite at Paris.
He was then the captain in the army. His
wife was the daughter OF M. Renouard, who
owned large printing establishment in the
Rue Garanciere, near st. Sulpice. M. Rem
Guard had no fortune Of his own, was timid
in business, did not keep up with the times
in the way Of improvements, so that his
printing office gradually went from bad to
worse. In order to escape bankruptcy, he
sold out and entered the consular service.
HE last post was that of Corfu.
Nine. Renousrd on the other hand, had
some money In her own right, which she
took good care to keep under her control
The result was that she left Nine. Boulan.
ger little fortune which produces an in.
come OF about 5000 year.
The general has spent almost all the