XXVI. L'auberge du pont du Gard · XXVII. Le récit
XXVI. At the Sign of the Pont du Gard (cont.) · XXVII. Caderousse's Story
King Louis-Philippe's arrival in England and the Marcenay fraud trial dominate this issue.
- King Louis-Philippe landed at Portsmouth on 8 October, greeted by Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington, then travelled by royal train to Windsor Castle where Queen Victoria received him at the foot of the staircase alongside Sir Robert Peel.
- The Times called Louis-Philippe, aged seventy-one, 'the last actor of the great drama of the French Revolution,' praising his fourteen-year policy of peace with England as greater glory than Napoleon's conquests.
- Prince de Joinville signed the official notice lifting the French naval blockade of Mogador on 21 September, and by 15 September the island was fully evacuated — ending France's Morocco campaign.
- Muhammad Ali Pasha, having adopted General Paixhans's shell-firing cannon for the Egyptian army, sent Paixhans the sword he personally wore as a token of gratitude.
- At the Seine Assizes, the advocate-general exposed how Hue de Marcenay and his wife Catherine Deret used simulated pregnancies, fictitious children, and seventy-six forged documents to swindle M. Gosse of over 427,000 francs across more than a decade.
- Polish priest Abbé Dombrowski, who had lived as a refugee in Orléans, died under the knout in Russian Poland after returning home in disguise — he expired at the hundred-and-forty-seventh stroke of the one hundred and fifty prescribed.
- A day-labourer named Poilier in Barizis poisoned his son-in-law with arsenic, then poisoned himself rather than face justice, confessing both acts to his wife before dying and refusing any antidote.
- Chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul will open his course on chemistry applied to dyeing at the Gobelins manufactory amphitheatre on 16 October, meeting three times weekly.