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'I keep wondering what it is that brings our colleague to take before<br />

this assembly such a l<strong>of</strong>ty attitude and to speak like General Bonaparte.'<br />

But he assured! 'At our age, {monsieur le general } Boulanger, Napoleon<br />

was dead!'" } (William L. Shirer, {The Collapse <strong>of</strong> the Third Republic},<br />

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969, p.44.)<br />

Boulanger considered that he was so insulted that he challenged<br />

Premier Floquet to a dual; not with words but with swords! The dual was<br />

held on July 13, the eve <strong>of</strong> Bastille Day. Although the fifty-year old General<br />

Boulanger, was an expert swordsman, while sixty-five year old Prime<br />

Minister Floquet was a sedentary lawyer, the Prime Minister wounded<br />

Boulanger in the neck and was declared the victor. It should be noted that<br />

Madame Marguerite de Bonnemains, who had become the mistress <strong>of</strong><br />

Boulanger, and who had decisive influence over him, had accompanied<br />

Boulanger to his dual. We shall soon see that this is another one <strong>of</strong> these<br />

"feminine intermediaries," which <strong>of</strong>ten make their appearance in French<br />

politics, especially when the fate <strong>of</strong> the Third Republic is at stake.<br />

However, what is important to recognize is that the "species<br />

characteristic" <strong>of</strong> {Laval the beast-man <strong>of</strong> Vichy} had already been<br />

recognized and identified inside <strong>of</strong> the Third Republic, as early as 1888. If<br />

the sword-dual was over, the fight to put a fascist beast-man in power was<br />

not over. It was clear that the members <strong>of</strong> parliament were not fearful<br />

enough. Floquet and Clemenceau had shown too much spunk and resistance,<br />

and were determined to speak out, because they were courageous enough to<br />

identify the animal. They had both passed the crucial test; that is, they had<br />

both identified publicly the difference between man and beast. The Third<br />

Republic was going to survive one more day, as Clemenceau had said, as<br />

long as "men would speak out!" Thus, year after year, Cabinet after<br />

Cabinet, weekend government after weekend government, France would be<br />

safe as long as deputies and ministers identified the {beast-man} among<br />

them. Meanwhile, French governments continued to be systematically<br />

bombarded, again and again, relentlessly, until the time came when not one<br />

among the deputies <strong>of</strong> the Chamber, and no minister would dare to speak out<br />

the truth in public!<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the main financial sources behind Boulanger was the Duchesse<br />

d'Usez, the heiress <strong>of</strong> the Veuve-Cliquot Champagne fortune. The Duchess<br />

was made to believe that Boulanger was going to bring back a Bourbon on<br />

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