XXXVI. Le carnaval de Rome
XXXVI. The Carnival in Rome
The Dutch address crisis, Spanish parliamentary debates, and Parisian bridge-toll dispute dominate this issue alongside storm disasters across France.
- King William II of the Netherlands refused to receive any Chamber deputation presenting a separate Address, threatening parliamentary custom dating back thirty years and throwing the legislature into open confusion.
- Jurists including Duvergier, Marie, and Philippe Dupin concluded that the Company of the Three Bridges has illegally collected tolls on the Pont des Arts, Pont d'Austerlitz, and Pont de la Cité since 1828.
- Frédéric Ozanam was unanimously nominated by the Paris Faculty of Letters to fill the chair of foreign literature left vacant by the death of Claude Fauriel, whose post Ozanam had already been covering for four years.
- The 48th Regiment of the Line, absent from France for eight years and veterans of the Battle of Isly, disembarked at Marseille to crowds who admired their sun-darkened faces and battle-worn uniforms.
- Franz Liszt performed at the Spanish royal palace before Queen Isabella II and Queen Mother, dazzling a gathering of the entire grandeza of Spain and the diplomatic corps.
- Diamond-setter Viennot, arrested at Port-Vendres while fleeing to Brazil, stood trial for embezzling 140,000 francs' worth of diamonds from Paris's leading jewellers by cycling pledges through Mont-de-Piété broker Bizet.
- A boiler explosion aboard the Spanish packet-boat el Segundo-Gaditano leaving Marseille harbour scalded four stokers so severely that their skin hung in bloody shreds; two died despite hospital care.
- Critic Samuel de Sacy reviewed Saint-Marc Girardin's Course in Dramatic Literature, praising its sparkling style and noting the first edition sold out entirely before the review was even written.