New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-18

subiect to panics and terrors, and had PRESENT.
ment that b0ulapger would come TO Vioeho Gnu
This was discovered through her servants, Wh p
the police employed to spy her. Iney niieu r nc.
head with reports they heard about now the h.sn
Court was convened In order 70 sentence bo .ne
General to be shot. Her anguish became unp Deli
able and to calm her fears. Boulangcr neu WIN
her to Brussels. She was happy there uilI t u,c
Duchesse d'Uzes came to the Hotel dc benevue'
near the Hotel Mengelle, where they were o.SS
ing The General insisted on her occupying
separate fiat. and her name was set down as Mlss
Lucy, Austin She was supposed 70 do p Ron n,s
mains looked English and spoke Engnsh Witnyuhe
O foreign accent lie had previously gone WIN
her and his daughter Marcela on tour IN spain
course Of the young ladys governess.
To keep Che General all to herself, Madame
dc Bonnemains threw off all restraint In LONDON
Ioasekeepers, hiring beautiful little villa and
fetching furniture from Paris. lie also ietched
his mother and q first cousin, MISS Orlnitn.
coming constantly from France, Among tnem
were NJ. and Madame Dutems. Madame Dutems
was at school with Madame de Bonnemains IN the
same convent, and the friendship which began
there had grown stronger as years rolled on. Ihe
French Code Furnishes the aisons Of married people
by refusing any status to their children. nor can
their status be regularized. unless by fraud. They
are outlaws in this respect and they have no claims
on any one, and they cannot De placed under the
tutelage Of a family council II sometimes hap
pens that the parents get married couple raudu-
iently to declare themselves for of course, sum
of money the father and mother IL is thought
that Madame Dutems and her husband went TO
jersey about some such arrangement. AT any rate
the Baroness settled in dying a large part OF her
fortune on that lady, and made a gift which was
fortune in itself to an infant bearing her name
Madame de Bonnemains would not allow BOu-
LANCER to 90 back 60 Paris to defy his enemies and
stand his trial. He insisted on stealing back
once. She came with him, but got so dangerously
give her cause for misery. They left Jersey last
May, and came to Brussels to be nearer to Paris
and the south of Europe They also wanted to
be near doctor skilled in treating tuberculosis.
Nine. de Bonnemains was worn by the disease
to a shadow. General Boulanger had taken it
from her She seemed last July to be mending.
seized with a nervous paroxysm, burst, in cough
ing blood-vessel of the right lung, and died in
few hours. He from that day seemed possessed
by the idea of joining Marguerite, and kept the
photograph on which she wrote "Je t'adore" on
his heart 1t was found under his waistcoat
after he fell dead before her grave, which ne
He got tombstone placed above her with the
words "A Marguerite: July IA. 1884, and
added in pencil on the white marble Il" bentot'
At first ne used to come at o'clock. But finding
himself the object of curiosity he changed his
hour and came at 8. When alone he talked to
himself aloud, and fell into paroxysms of grief.
Il his mother, cousin OF the Dutems were with
IL o'clock. NJ Dutems had followed him fast in
q cab and arrived just in time to find him dead:
The bullet passed diagonaly through his head
from the temple TO the back.
General Boulangers cousin, suspecting suicidal
ideas. hid his firearms. Some days before his
death she spoke freely to him. saying that her
life was utterly wretched and must remain SO
unless he promised not to take his life. He said
he would give her an answer later. She then
remarked: II am going away in October. Do
that month"; He answered: ~ give you my
word He put an end to his life on September
30, after having first burned all his political
correspondence and paid every, bridesmaids bill
Latterly he was quite emacated. The eyes were
sunk and ringed with purple, and he was wan
and feeble. German agents were approaching him.
He might have played part in the event OF
Franco-German war; and they wanted probably
that he should play one to their, advantage It
may have occurred to him that older, poorer ana
more solitary he would be less able TO resist
temptation coming from them, and decided that
neither his poverty nor his will should consent
20 reasonable participation with them, e. Y.