Quotes
- "We can finally renounce our unfortunate defensive policy ; France ought to increasingly follow the offensive policy." (1886, during a speech in Libourne)
- "Boulangisme: (...) 'a vague and mystical aspiration of a nation towards a democratic, authoritarian, liberating ideal; the state of mind of a country that is searching, after the various deceptions to which she was exposed by the established parties which she had trusted up to then, and outside the usual ways, something else altogether, without knowing either what or how, and summoning all those who are dissatisfied and vanquished in its search for the unknown.' (...) 'General Boulanger was born out of this state of mind. He did not create the boulangisme, it is boulangisme that created him. He had the chance to arrive at the psychological and spiritual moment from which he profits." (Arthur Meyer in Le Gaulois, October 11, 1889)
- "A Saint Arnaud of the café-concert." (Jules Ferry on Boulanger)
- "Five minutes past midnight, gentlemen. It's been five minutes since boulangisme has started to decrease." (a boulangiste on January 27, immediately after Boulanger's refusal to lead a coup)
- "He died as he has lived: a second lieutenant." (Georges Clemenceau upon hearing news of Boulanger's suicide)
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