Boulanger

[ boo-lahn-jey; French boo-lahn-zhey ]

/ ˌbu lɑnˈdʒeɪ; French bu lɑ̃ˈʒeɪ /

noun

Georges Er·nest Jean Ma·rie

[zhawrzh er-nest zhahn ma-ree] /ʒɔrʒ ɛrˈnɛst ʒɑ̃ maˈri/,1837–91, French general and politician.

Na·dia (Ju·liette)

[nah-dee-uh joo-lee-et; French na-dya zhy-lyet] /ˈnɑ di ə ˌdʒu liˈɛt; French naˈdya ʒüˈlyɛt/,1887–1979, French musician and teacher.

Example sentences from the Web for boulanger

Boulanger however was not the stuff of which dictators are made.

Top Ten Military Sex Scandals, Part Two |David Frum |November 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Mme Bonnemain died in 1890; Boulanger returned from exile to blow his brains out atop Mme Bonnemain's Brussels grave.

Top Ten Military Sex Scandals, Part Two |David Frum |November 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Much anxiety is felt respecting Boulanger's goings on with respect to the army.

Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 |Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
It would be like the Paris elections to Boulanger, said others.

Lord Randolph Churchill |Winston Spencer Churchill

General Boulanger managed to lift himself into great prominence, and gain a powerful following in France.

Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century |Charles Morris
Pelasgus among the Arcadians passed for the first man and the first legislator (Boulanger, i. 133).

Tradition |John Francis Arundell
He still remained an influential member of the moderate republican party, and directed the opposition to General Boulanger.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for boulanger

Boulanger

/ (French bulɑ̃ʒe) /

noun

Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide

Nadia (Juliette) (nadja). 1887–1979, French teacher of musical composition: her pupils included Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, and Virgil Thomson. She is noted also for her work in reviving the works of Monteverdi

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