1844-09-07 · Journal des Débats

XI. L'ogre de Corse

XI. The Corsican Ogre

The House of Lords overturns O'Connell's conviction, Irish nationalists debate French naval power, and French scientists conquer Mont Blanc.

Three law lords — Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell — overruled seven judges and a Tory majority to quash Daniel O'Connell's sedition conviction, with lay peers voluntarily abstaining from the vote.
At a Dublin Repeal Association meeting, MP Brown roused thunderous applause by suggesting the Prince de Joinville — fresh from bombarding Tangier — might next test whether Gibraltar's rock is truly 'inaccessible.'

Toulon's municipal council voted 20,000 francs to fête the Prince de Joinville on his return, including 500 francs for each widow of sailors killed in the bombardments of Tangier and Mogador.

Locksmith's labourer Constantin Lebourgeois, who stabbed his wife twice and leapt from a third-floor window breaking both legs, was sentenced to ten years' réclusion — and had sent 100 francs of his charitable relief money to his wife and children.
A Brescia inheritance case forced open after twenty years revealed that the testator's illegitimate son and daughter — his sole heirs — had unknowingly married each other, requiring the Pope to annul their union.

Physicists Bravais, Martins, and Lepileur reached the summit of Mont Blanc on 29 August, enduring −13 °C storms in a tent on the Grand Plateau; no one had previously stayed more than four hours at the summit.

Théodore Chassériau has published a suite of fifteen etchings illustrating the principal scenes of Shakespeare's Othello.

Balzac's Philosophie de la Vie conjugale à Paris, published in the latest instalments of Le Diable à Paris, is praised as 'one of the most brilliant pages ever to have issued from his pen.'

XI. The Corsican Ogre

The House of Lords overturns O'Connell's conviction, Irish nationalists debate French naval power, and French scientists conquer Mont Blanc.

Three law lords — Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell — overruled seven judges and a Tory majority to quash Daniel O'Connell's sedition conviction, with lay peers voluntarily abstaining from the vote.
At a Dublin Repeal Association meeting, MP Brown roused thunderous applause by suggesting the Prince de Joinville — fresh from bombarding Tangier — might next test whether Gibraltar's rock is truly 'inaccessible.'

Toulon's municipal council voted 20,000 francs to fête the Prince de Joinville on his return, including 500 francs for each widow of sailors killed in the bombardments of Tangier and Mogador.

Locksmith's labourer Constantin Lebourgeois, who stabbed his wife twice and leapt from a third-floor window breaking both legs, was sentenced to ten years' réclusion — and had sent 100 francs of his charitable relief money to his wife and children.
A Brescia inheritance case forced open after twenty years revealed that the testator's illegitimate son and daughter — his sole heirs — had unknowingly married each other, requiring the Pope to annul their union.

Physicists Bravais, Martins, and Lepileur reached the summit of Mont Blanc on 29 August, enduring −13 °C storms in a tent on the Grand Plateau; no one had previously stayed more than four hours at the summit.

Théodore Chassériau has published a suite of fifteen etchings illustrating the principal scenes of Shakespeare's Othello.

Balzac's Philosophie de la Vie conjugale à Paris, published in the latest instalments of Le Diable à Paris, is praised as 'one of the most brilliant pages ever to have issued from his pen.'