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Boulangist Movement? 5marks​

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Between 1886 and 1887, General Georges-Ernst-Jean-Marie Boulanger (1837–1891) was at the center of French political life. A dashingly handsome man, given to parading around Paris on his black horse Tunis, he also professed advanced republican views then relatively rare among senior members of the French officer corps. For many in a nation still traumatized by France's crushing military defeat and territorial losses in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, Boulanger became the symbol of the hoped-for revenge, the origin of his nickname, "Le général revanche." All of this brought him to the attention of left-wing republicans known as the Radicals upon whom the more moderate republicans depended in order to sustain a majority in a parliament, where fully a third of the deputies were royalists or Bonapartists (who usually called themselves conservatives). Inclusion of Boulanger as minister of war in the government of Charles de Freycinet (1828–1923) in January of 1886 and that of his successor René Goblet (1828–1905) in December of the same year was the price of Radical support.

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