BOULANGER

GEORGE ERNEST JEAN MARIE (1837-91), Fr. general and statesman; director of infantry at War Office (1882); became War Minister (1886-87), and created the ‘Boulangist’ democratic agitation which threw France into confusion; he himseif fought a duel with Floquet, the premier, in 1888; general (1887); returned for Paris (1889), but, accused of monarchical intrigues Se) after, he lost courage and fied; committed suicide at Bru els (Sept. 30)