1845-06-21 · Journal des Débats

XL. Le déjeuner

XL. Breakfast

France's Chamber of Deputies debates atmospheric railways and the naval budget, while Belgium faces a ministerial crisis after elections.

Physicist M. Arago accused the Minister of Public Works of misusing the 1,800,000-franc atmospheric railway credit by testing only the English system on the Saint-Germain line instead of all competing designs as the law required.
Marshal Sébastiani presented parliament with a treaty replacing the contentious Anglo-French mutual right of search of vessels, committing both nations to maintain 26 anti-slave-trade cruisers off the African coast.
A Brussels correspondent reported that Prime Minister Nothomb's government collapsed after June elections, praising Nothomb as Belgium's ablest statesman while predicting his successors would fall within months if they governed for one party alone.

At Mesnil-Mauger, locksmith Cauchois stabbed his common-law partner four times with a kitchen knife after she refused to marry him, then hanged himself from a beam — leaving a seven-year-old child as the only witness.
At the fort of Ivry, two quarry workers named Lechat and Dalaceffe were crushed to death when an inexperienced carter panicked and released the wheel they were riding to haul a massive stone block from a shaft.

The Bibliothèque-Charpentier issued a wave of new titles including works by Victor Cousin, Théophile Gautier, and a complete Tacitus translated by Charles Louandre, who spent five years on the task.

Landscape painter Léon Fleury won the gold medal at the current Exposition, while Claudius Lavergne received a royal gold medal for his Sacré-Cœur canvas from the previous Salon.

Alexandre Walewski, natural son of Napoleon I, attended the wedding of the young Comte d'Ornano in Tours, where the Archbishop blessed the union in the archbishopric chapel.

XL. Breakfast

France's Chamber of Deputies debates atmospheric railways and the naval budget, while Belgium faces a ministerial crisis after elections.

Physicist M. Arago accused the Minister of Public Works of misusing the 1,800,000-franc atmospheric railway credit by testing only the English system on the Saint-Germain line instead of all competing designs as the law required.
Marshal Sébastiani presented parliament with a treaty replacing the contentious Anglo-French mutual right of search of vessels, committing both nations to maintain 26 anti-slave-trade cruisers off the African coast.
A Brussels correspondent reported that Prime Minister Nothomb's government collapsed after June elections, praising Nothomb as Belgium's ablest statesman while predicting his successors would fall within months if they governed for one party alone.

At Mesnil-Mauger, locksmith Cauchois stabbed his common-law partner four times with a kitchen knife after she refused to marry him, then hanged himself from a beam — leaving a seven-year-old child as the only witness.
At the fort of Ivry, two quarry workers named Lechat and Dalaceffe were crushed to death when an inexperienced carter panicked and released the wheel they were riding to haul a massive stone block from a shaft.

The Bibliothèque-Charpentier issued a wave of new titles including works by Victor Cousin, Théophile Gautier, and a complete Tacitus translated by Charles Louandre, who spent five years on the task.

Landscape painter Léon Fleury won the gold medal at the current Exposition, while Claudius Lavergne received a royal gold medal for his Sacré-Cœur canvas from the previous Salon.

Alexandre Walewski, natural son of Napoleon I, attended the wedding of the young Comte d'Ornano in Tours, where the Archbishop blessed the union in the archbishopric chapel.