XXXIV. Apparition
XXXIV. The Apparition
France exchanges ratifications of the Morocco peace treaty, General Prim faces a rushed military trial in Spain, and Paris prepares a major government loan.
- In Tangier's Casbah, French plenipotentiary the Duke of Glücksberg handed Pasha Bou-Selam-Ben-Ali a treaty bound in violet velvet, with Moroccan women watching from rooftops as cannon salutes echoed between the warships and the forts.
- General Juan Prim, aged thirty-two and credited with helping topple regent Espartero, faces execution after a military prosecutor drafted his indictment in under three days, drawing comparisons to the single-vote death sentence of General Diego León.
- The French government plans to borrow up to 200 million francs, with analysts noting that French Three per Cents have fallen from 86 to 80–82 since 1840 while English Three per Cents climbed from 92 to 100.
- A rogue priest posing alternately as a Jesuit and a missionary swindled a spinster in Arles out of 130,000 francs before the local crowd smashed his windows and 200 soldiers were called out; he eventually resold her property but the affair cost her 16,000 francs in fees.
- A twenty-two-year-old Parisian, M. de Maupas, fatally stabbed a box-maker's journeyman with a pocket-knife after re-entering the shop to apologise for calling him a coward — the dispute began when he mistook play for a child's beating.
- A Saxon court sentenced seventeen-year-old peasant Leersen to two years' imprisonment for placing a one-inch stone on the Dresden–Leipzig railway track, publishing the full judgment in newspapers as a public warning.
- New Parisian census data show the city's population grew from 547,756 in 1800 to 912,033 in 1841, with only fifty of every hundred people dying there having actually been born in the capital.
- Francis Wey's two-volume Remarques sur la Langue française au dix-neuvième siècle is published by Firmin Didot, inviting comparison with Vaugelas's landmark grammar of 1647.