Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche, was a French Army officer and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third Republic, he won mu
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1880s
Portrait of Boulanger by Nadar
Woodburytype / carbon print of General Boulanger, aged 52 (1889). Photographed by Herbert R. Barraud
Boulanger's suicide, as reported in Le Petit Journal (10 October 1891)
Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, usually called Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte or Jérôme Bonaparte, was the second son of Jérôme, King of Westphalia, youngest brother of Napoleon I, and his s
Georges Ernest Boulanger
…Pierre Tirard as Prime Minister—Tirard refused to include Boulanger in his cabinet. During the period, Boulanger was in Switzerland, where he met with Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, technically a Bonapartist, who offered his full support to the cause. The Bonapartists had attached themselves to the general, and even the Comte de…
Portrait of the children of Jérôme Bonaparte, c. 1825
Portrait by Flandrin, 1860 (Musée d'Orsay)
Prince Napoléon-Jérôme with his two sons