Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie

French politician and general. FH says he met him in Paris in 1889, when Boulanger was being urged to lead a coup d'état, and that he was present at the fateful moment when Boulanger lost his nerve, despite FH's urgings.

Later when Boulanger had fled to England, FH says he 'dined with him once or twice in Portland Place but it was depressing and the champagne was appalling, sweet as sugar'.