French origin of the ...

... Man on Horseback ...


Maybe Mexico's turn will be next ... ??!!


William Manchester on Boulanger:


"Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger, a French general of the 1880s who aspired to political power always appeared in public astride a magnificent stallion.

"[H]e left the expression Man on Horseback to describe an officer who wishes to seize control of a civil government ...."

From page 355 of Manchester's American Caesar.

If I remember from my college days at Lamar U. -- in Beaumont, Texas -- as a history major correctly, Boulanger ended his dazzling fantasy career by blowing his own brains out while standing at the grave of his favorite mistress in someplace like the Isle of Guernsey.

Unless that was another French general! :)