BOULANGER AND THE FORTUNE TELLER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1653, 29 October 1887, Page 3

BOULANGER AND THE FORTUNE TELLER.

Being in all ways ambitions of imitating the First Napoleon, who frequently consulted the renowned fortune-teller Mdlle. Senormand and believed in her power of prediction, General Boulanger (writes the Paris correspondent of (be Sydney Morning Hera d) has had his fate foretold on two occasions. About six weeks before the downfall of the Goblet Cabinet, of which he was a member, a friend of his, having heard of the fortunetelling powers of a certain Madame Reiyal, contrived a meeting between the two, the fortune-teller knowing nothing of the personality of the, party whom she had been summoned to meet. Madame R., on examining his hand at. the commencement of the seance, said, “You are asoldier,'an officer of high rank; you' have been in one war, and you will be in another.” Boulanger, endeavoring to put aside the statement of being a soldier, the woman replied simply : “ 1 see, and I state what I see. \ou are,” she continue;), “ in a position you could not have hoped for, but you are about to have a fall, but do not let it trouble you, In course of time you will attain a position still more elevated. The lines in your hand show that you are near a throne,” It was only when the consultant had retired that she was told who he was. On learning his name she exclaimed. “ Ah 1 I did right, then, in not telling all I saw in his future j for his hand announces that he will die a violent deash.”