René Goblet
Videos
René Marie Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.
René Goblet
Georges Ernest Boulanger
Videos
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
René Goblet
…which caused immense excitement in France. For some days Goblet took no definite decision, but left Flourens, who stood for peace, to fight it out with General Boulanger, the minister of war, who urged the despatch of an ultimatum. Although he finally intervened on the side of Flourens, and peace was preserved, his…
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)