M. de Cuers de Cogolin, editor of the Cnuvier d'Haiphows writes the following inter ting article in' his issue of the LUth inst:
London, 1st October, den 1 Boulanger has committed suicide Brussels, iglish telegram of two lines tells us of the death of him who was General Boulanger.
Is there not something xpressibly sad in learning, through the medium of a f -reign tongue, the death in a foreign country of this French general, a victim of hide use politique? It has killed him rifter having Aospoiled him, little by little, of both his idler and his dreams of glory.
Grent child, fond of noise, as he was, he hus died in solitude, abandoned by all, and i One cannot help fee wretched end of a been a leader on whom political intrigue has wade a criminal and a traitor to his country.
Who does not remember Boulanger as Minister of War He held the post scarcely three mani and even in that time the army, at first had begun to feel contidencs jas revealed. And it raised 5 ug confidently towards the Rhine, and feeling that the hour of its wenknoas was past and gone.
Then came infatuation, an overpowering infatuation, and General Boulanger became intoxicated with the incense offered to the applause of the multitude and the of women, He believed in hia star—as if there could be a star when there is no sky hen, instead of remaining, as he ough well disciplined soldier devoted to hi country even to the death, h threw h into politics, and me wretches in And whi plaything he became in their hands!
This great child, as I have already called hi had never more than the alluring Nothing had occurred to prepare him fur n political role, and he went on like a blind man, bandied about from pillar to post, scattering quickly-forgotten oaths and promises a every step.
Was he " Buuapate ora Movk? asked people who came into contact with him.
He was not made of the stuff of either a Bonaparte or a Monk, and the time has gone by in which public liberty could be fettered by one saan, Fora ling time fortunate, he came to know a bitter morrow—voluntary exile escape justice in his own country, public detests, a gradual loss of support, and finally utter neglect.
Friendship was rare experience. At Jersey few were faithful. At the desertion was complete; and wh exile was forgotten by his best friends, death struck down by his side his one companion, devoted and loving through good and evil report.
Love remains when friendship flees. When that love was removed, there was thing left bat a life ruined and_without prospect; perlinps une of wretched: Death was a deliverance; it was the sleep which follows sorrow.
Before his cruel abandonment, no man wns more liked, or possessed in a higher degree those qualities of heart which attract other men and give their possessor no greater pleasure than that of doing kindnesss to his inferiors.
The reader will pardon me if I relate a personal reminiscence in homage of the departed.
In 1886 I was an infantry lieutenant at Paris, when it was suggested to me that I should gu to Tungking tu start the Courrier Haiphong.
My agreement with the representative of the proprietors havi ed, ruceeded to take steps ree to start as soon as Tong. king. Time pressed; Thad only eight or ten da To obtain my discharge in the orthodox way would have taken a month, and per. haps more. I obtained a letter of intro-Auction from nnd proceeded to the Rue St, Dom beg grant my discharge forthwith, making an est, 1 circumstances obliged regulations, as it waa necessary for me to start as quickly as possible.
General Boulanger—I seem to seo him now—heard me without interruption, When I hind finished he attempted to dissusde me. To give up my commission seemed to him a piece of folly. Why did ish to renounce a profession which I loved? And when I went on to again urge my request, and to adduce " num ber of details connected with my private affairs, he thanked me for the contidence I had placed in him, After reflecting for a moment he sid: "I do not to resign without full con-you know how you will gs in Tongking? Go there and see for yourself before you abandon your rank anid the advantage of ten years' service. I will geant you leave which will enable you to go tv Tongking, and then if you are satisfied with Tf not, you can return."
made me sit down at his desk and himself dictated to me an application for a year's leave on full pay, saying at the same time that one always ask for much in order to obtain little He then sent for the General commanding ry and gave him th grant me six on hale-pay. At the expi time I was either to rejoin my regiment or resign.
I confess I was very Geveral. Ti his insignificant unknown lieutenant, he had given way to one of those generous impulses which were frequent with hia.
Later on, when events showed the general his tomb
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