M. de Blowitz, telegraphing from Paris on Tuesday, states that,
"by way of reprisals against M. de Mun and M. de
Breteuil for accepting the Republic, M. de Cassagnac alleges that in 1889 they formed with him part of a committee of six which aimed at overturning the Republic by force, but whose plans were foiled by Boulanger's flight." The two ex- Monarchists have made no reply, probably on the ground that the less said about the help given by, the Monarchists to. General Boulanger the better. The other members of the committee were, according to M. de Blowitz, M. Derourede and M. Rochefort. Who was the sixth? When General Boulanger fled, M. de Cassagnac justified his flight, says M. de Blowitz, and upheld him as the innocent victim of an arbi- trary tribunal. " He.protested that the accueed had not con- spired, and had not contemplated resort to force. He now acknowledges that there was a conspiracy, and that it was rendered abortive by the flight." It is certainly difficult to see how both statements can be true. We wonder which M. de Cassagnac will elect to stand by ? The incident serves to. remind the world how extraordinarily foolish, as well as base and criminal, was the part played by the Monarchists in the Boulanger conspiracy.
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