Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09

heard a sharp re-
port. fastening to the spot he found
Boulanger lying dead upon the ground
with a revolver clenched in his right
hand. A hasty examination of the body
showed that he had placed the weapon
to his right ear and fired. The deed has
caused intense excitement among the
followers of the dead general
both here and in Paris. Although Gen
eral Boulanger was undoubtedly closer
to poverty than he had been for many
years, yet the evidence indicates that
this was not one of his principal motives
for suicide. Since the death of Madame
Bonnemain he has been deeply despond-
emit. He seemed to have lost all his
vigor and seemed to be living in a des-
ultory and aimless fashion. He would
pass whole days in a morose silence from
which his niece and other friends vainly
sought to arouse him. He was even
seen to shed tears while he gazed con-
tinually at a photograph of his dead
mistress. Instead of overcoming this
feeling with the lapse of time he has
yielded to it more and more. His am
bition forsook him and he seemed to
take no interest in French politics,
about the smallest incident he used to
show the most lively interest. His sui
eide. therefore, is not a surprise to his
intimates. although sudden and sensa-
tional to the public.
George Ernest Jean Marie B%oulanger,
French eN-minister of war, whose suicide
in this city is announced, was born at
Rennes, in 1897. His descent on the ma
ternal side is Welsh. In 1855 Boulanger
entered the military college of St. Cyr and
was made a su%b-lieutenant in 1857. He
served under Marshal Ranolon in the
kabile campaign. He also took part in the
Franco-ltalian war, and was woundedin
the battle of Turbigo. In 1860 he obtained
his full l~ieutenancy, and two years later
was promoted to a %captaincy. He was
with Bazaine at Metz, but by some
means escaped the fate of BaZaine's army
and made his way back to Paris. He was
then promoted to a Observation-Disclosures
by the the government of national defense,
and fought at Champigny Nov. 30 to Dec.
2. In 1880 he became brigadier general.
General Boulanger had a disagreement
with NJ. Camelon. the resident general.
and was recalled. He held the war office
appointment of director Of the infantry
division and became minister of war in
1856. When NJ. De Freycinet resigned,
and was succeeded by NJ. Goblet, Dec. 1886,
the general retained his portfolio; but on
the fall of NJ. Goblet Boulanger's name
did not appear in the cabinet of NJ. Rou-
vier. The government having decided in
March. 1SSS. to cashier the general by
n1arinr him IN tho rotiraI 1;,% L., .-
gurated a vigorous campaign against the
ministry. Vacancies shortly after &C.
Cured in the representation of the Bou-
logne and the Nord. Here he was re-
turned by $500 votes to 1910 polled by
the Opportunist candidate. In the Nord
his triumph was still more remarkable,
the number of votes polled for him being
III, 52S against 1901 for NJ. Foucart, and
9,e+7 for NJ. Moreau. This was on April
Is, 1888, which, in a manifesto he issued to
the electors, he declared would be marked
In the annals of the country as a date of
true deliverance. Subsequently his popu-
larlty waned for a time. The generals
appearance in the chamber of deputies in
July. 1888, to demand a dissolution of the
chamber, gave rise to IA stormy scene. M.
Floquet made a vigorous attack upon the
general. and in the alteration between
them General B%oulanger exclaimed, tYou
lie This led NJ. Floquet to demand sat
isfartion, and on July 13aduel was fought
between them with the result that
General Boulonger received a deep wound
in the throat. After his recovery he ap-
peared lse9l as a candidate at the bye-elec-
tions in Paris, at the Nord, the Somme, and
was returned by large majorities. The
patriotic league of which he was the head
was subsequently suppressed, and the
general was tried by the same on charges
of treachery. To avoid arrest he fled to
Belgium, then to London. finally return
ing to Belgium and settling in this CITY
with his mistress, Nine. de Bonenemarie,
upon whose tomb he breathed his last.
She died in this city on July l6, 1891, after
having accompanied General Boulanger
in all his latest wanderings. She devoted
an Inherited fortune of 81 SOC, 900 to the
furtherance of the generals political for
tunes. Madame Boulanger, wife of the
dead general, is described as being some
what of a religeuse and a woman Of mod
est and domestic instincts. Reports as to
her attitude toward General B%ouIanper
since his becoming infatuated with Mad
anne De Bonnemain differ. One story
was to the effect that she had entirely alb
negated self and would be contented TO
keep a home for her erring husband to
which he might return when worn out
with the pursuit of fame and tired of in
trigue.
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