New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-11
A PARTISAN LOVE MATCH.
MILE BOULANGERS MARRIAGE OF AFFEC-
TIoN-QUEEN NATHALIE.

would not be true to her nature if she did not
we'd for affection and not ct all for grc-i of
pelf j never saw any one who moro fully in
spires sympathy on first sight She has the
charm Of youth the frankness of an ingenious dis
position, ease with modesty of manner, great
beauty, bushes like the break Of day at the adj
miration her appearance in crowded room calls
forth and has figure quite in harmony with her
weiLshapcd face and features. 1t Is Inquire
with those flowing curved lines which show per-
feet proportion between the different parts. Her
hair is brownish auburn Marcelle Boulan-
ger adorcs the General. who reciprocates her adj
Grafton and takes her about with him whenever
he can. / suspect she would not be so much in
love with Captain Driant were he less enthu-
siastic adrnirer of her father and had ne not
constantly proved the fidelity of his attachment
The Captain is in the Zouaves. lie was Gen
eral Boulanger's orderly officer in Tunis and made
frequent and long excursions with him into the
desert forming the southern border OF that
Province. After Boulanger went 10 the War
Office as Minister he appointed Driant TO be his
confidential military secretary and took him to
live with him at the Hotel du Louvre. The
Captain did not reap fast promotion through this
friendship, but got, on the Generals recommends
ton, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. On the
advent to power of the Rouvier Cabinet he
followed Bouanacr in his semi-dis=race tn Cler-
mont Ferrand. whittier Marcelle went Also her
mother and sister staying good deal IN Paris.
The grandmamma Boulan-er born Griffiths was
the chaperon.
II was proposed by Robert Mitchell and other
Bonap artists to make up match between Mademoi-
sollc Marcelle and Prince Victor. What flower
she would be on an Imperial throne, his idea
was, and how she would embellish French society
in reigning over il. Boulanger-Vlctor fusion,
it was thought by these would-be match-makers,
could rot fail to go long way in politics. But
Marcelie would not give VI her young ana True
hearted captain for any Prince in Europe, and so
he and she are 10 be married tomorrow before the
Mayor Of their ACCOMPLISHMENT, and on next Tues
day in the Church OF St Peters of Chaillot
The Captain is what Woowich or West Point
lads would call decent fellow. He looks upright,
sinsle-minded, resolutc and intelligent in limited
soldierly way, and has acquired very polite
manners from beng in constant relations with
Boulancer lone of the most winninCly courteous
men alive during the last five or SIX years lie
is a clean-built officer. rather under than over the
middle height, with good countenaDce and the
quick activity Of an insect. The bride IS to have
a dowry of $4,000 The bridegroom has "A small
fortune and his pay Of SIS a month Their united
incomes will be about 81 200 year. and they are
10 live or this in Tunis, whittier the General has
advised the Captain to go to be above the suspicion
Of attaching himself political officer to the
fortunes of his wifcs father. Besides the income
l have named. there will be certain perqusites,
such as the service of one or two soldiers rs do
mestcs and horse and its fodder and an allow
ance for its stablng. Captain Drlant is from
Artois in the Pas de Calais. which borders on
General Doulangers constituency Of lie NOrd.
The presents that being sent are prodlgious IN
quantity. and many Of them are valuable. As to
the bouquets. she does not know now what to do
with them. They are upstairs and downstairs and
they overflow into hall. lobby and the Generals
morning-room. The witnesses are to be on her
side Count Dillon and her great-dncle Griffith,
end on tie Captains side General herbreck de
Faverot, who commands the garrison at Sedan, and
St. Cyr comrade Of the bridegroom. Tie In
vitatons, pair of which l have received, are
thus couched: Madame Ernest Boulanger
Madame Paul Renouard, the General of Division,
Deputy and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
anu Madame George Boulanger have the honor TO
announce TO you the marriage of Mile. Marcelle
Boulanger with Monsieur Ernest Drant, Captain
of the 4th Regiment OF Zouaves. And they beg
you to be present at the nupta benediction, which
will be given on Tuesday October 30, 1888, at
noon precisely in the Church of st. Peter Of
Chaillot-7 The fellow invitation thus runs " NJ
and Mime. Driant have the honor TO announce TO
you the marriage Of NJ. Driant, captain Of the 4th
Zousvcs. their son, with Mile. Marcelle BouIanger
Pas-en-Artois. Pas de Calais.
Last night the engaged couple and the ire
presSble General met with great reception at
the Theatre Lyrique Of the Chateau d Eau. The
expected presence Of the General was announced
the night before ard the whole house was packed
There was not an empty place left, and tickets
Oh hv eia vendors
brought extraordinary prices When the Boulanger
group took their place in the box reserved for
them, there was q cry almost loud enough TO raise
the roof of the theatre of Vivc Boulanger"
Some -whistiings added their shrill sounds OF
disapproval. During the entge-acte the demonstra-
ton was repeated The General, beaming with
delight, rose and saluted. To avoid further up
roar he withdrew with his daughter and Captain
Driant But the crowd ran after them and nearly
killed them with kindness by pressing round them
TO express their sympathy. So they were Obliged
TO return TO their box and TO lend themselves TO
three other manifestations in the course of the
evening Half way through the third act they
slipped quietly away.
Between the deficit, the new war budget Of
one milliard and sixty millions Of francs, the pro-
posed income tax on the and l-2 per cents
(which were bought by all who hold them on the
understanding that they TO be free from
every sort of impost, and the CLAIM of the great
railway companies for eighty-hve millions OF
francs Of guaranteed interest the prospects OF not
only the Floquct Cabinet but of Government &C
cording to the Versailles Constitution,
rather bad. There never was bigger job than
the voting Of the Railways Conventions DILL
which was carried through as much
by the Royalists and Bonapartst-C
as by the Opportunists OF all shades. Raynal
o Bordehis jew. who got up suddenly through
Cambettas patronage, and the d!screditable
Rouvier were the responsible for 1t, the one
rs Minister Of Public Works and the other as re-
porter on the bill and chairman OF the Budget
Committee in carrying it two years back. It's
6-xt consaoucnce is 10 throw a fresh load Of debt