XII. Le père et le fils · XIII. Les Cent-jours
XII. Father and Son · XIII. The Hundred Days
The Tahiti-Pritchard affair between France and England, Daniel O'Connell's release from prison, and the French military camp at Metz dominate this issue.
- The Journal des Débats rebukes the National for predicting that France would recall naval commander Bruat and official d'Aubigny over the Pritchard affair — neither man was recalled, and the dispute ended in an honourable arrangement.
- On 7 September, Daniel O'Connell walked free from prison to a Dublin celebration unlike any the city had seen, with no disorder reported among the enormous crowd.
- The mock siege of Metz, commanded by the Duc de Nemours, proceeds as a genuine war exercise with nightly trench-digging; Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar and Captain Gordon, son of Lord Aberdeen, are attending as foreign observers.
- A wine merchant named Alexandre, bitten by a possibly rabid dog 38 days earlier, refused cauterisation, developed full hydrophobia — unable to cross a bridge at the sight of water — and died in agony at 29, leaving a pregnant widow and four children.
- At Rouen's Quai du Havre, an equestrian bronze of Wellington bound for England and a full-length marble Napoleon destined for Ajaccio arrived simultaneously under the same crane, meeting face to face in the rigging.
- Auber's opera La Sirène, the musical hit of 1844, is now being staged by theatres across France and Germany; Musard's quadrilles on its melodies caused a sensation at Paris's Exposition de l'Industrie.
- A review of Abbé Sabatier's Esprit catholique finds a rare Gallican parish priest arguing that bishops are answerable to the Conseil d'État, metropolitans, and even general councils — positions scorned by Ultramontane journals.
- The Sisters of Charity, absent from England since the Reformation, have just established a house in London's Queen Square under the patronage of vicar apostolic Mr. Griffiths, with eight sisters and one novice sent from Dublin.