1844-08-28 · Journal des Débats

I. Marseille. — L'arrivée · II. Le père et le fils

I. Marseilles — Arrival · II. Father and Son

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Marshal Bugeaud's dispatches detail the approach to the Battle of Isly, while Dominican Republic politics and Moroccan peace with Spain dominate foreign news.

Marshal Bugeaud's pre-battle dispatches reveal he attacked a Moroccan force of roughly 40,000 men — including 30,000 horsemen and 11 guns — with only 8,500 infantry, 1,400 cavalry, and 16 guns.
Morocco signed peace with all European nations except France, with Spain reportedly gaining three leagues of territory near Ceuta as part of the settlement.
General Santana entered Santo Domingo with 2,000 men, reinstated the pro-French protectorate junta, and paid a formal visit to the French consul — while a Haitian plot to massacre mulattoes, planned for 22 July, was narrowly uncovered.

A Paris physician named Dr. Devilliers, facing criminal charges over a woman's death following an alleged abortion, cut his own throat, swallowed six grains of silver nitrate, then severed an artery with his watch glass — all within a single night at Corbeil.
A jilted mother, Françoise Lafourcade, stood trial at Toulouse for lying in wait with a musket to shoot the man who had abandoned her daughter; the jury convicted her but stripped out premeditation, prompting the astonished court to invoke a rarely used power and send the case to a new jury.

Carlotta Grisi is to dance the lead in La Jolie Fille de Gand at the Opéra, while the Gymnase has engaged a sixteen-year-old pupil of Samson for her début in Louise, ou la Réparation.

A compressed-air locomotive invented by M. Andrau completed roughly one kilometre on the left-bank railway before government commissioners and engineers, with further trials promised for September.

Jules Janin has so thoroughly revised his novel Le Chemin de Traverse that he describes it as virtually a new work, now being published in instalments by Michel Lévy frères.

I. Marseilles — Arrival · II. Father and Son

Marshal Bugeaud's dispatches detail the approach to the Battle of Isly, while Dominican Republic politics and Moroccan peace with Spain dominate foreign news.

Marshal Bugeaud's pre-battle dispatches reveal he attacked a Moroccan force of roughly 40,000 men — including 30,000 horsemen and 11 guns — with only 8,500 infantry, 1,400 cavalry, and 16 guns.
Morocco signed peace with all European nations except France, with Spain reportedly gaining three leagues of territory near Ceuta as part of the settlement.
General Santana entered Santo Domingo with 2,000 men, reinstated the pro-French protectorate junta, and paid a formal visit to the French consul — while a Haitian plot to massacre mulattoes, planned for 22 July, was narrowly uncovered.

A Paris physician named Dr. Devilliers, facing criminal charges over a woman's death following an alleged abortion, cut his own throat, swallowed six grains of silver nitrate, then severed an artery with his watch glass — all within a single night at Corbeil.
A jilted mother, Françoise Lafourcade, stood trial at Toulouse for lying in wait with a musket to shoot the man who had abandoned her daughter; the jury convicted her but stripped out premeditation, prompting the astonished court to invoke a rarely used power and send the case to a new jury.

Carlotta Grisi is to dance the lead in La Jolie Fille de Gand at the Opéra, while the Gymnase has engaged a sixteen-year-old pupil of Samson for her début in Louise, ou la Réparation.

A compressed-air locomotive invented by M. Andrau completed roughly one kilometre on the left-bank railway before government commissioners and engineers, with further trials promised for September.

Jules Janin has so thoroughly revised his novel Le Chemin de Traverse that he describes it as virtually a new work, now being published in instalments by Michel Lévy frères.