1845-06-29 · Journal des Débats

XLIV. La vendetta

XLIV. The Vendetta

French debate over imprisonment for debt, the Krosnowski attempted-murder trial, and Abd-el-Kader's movements in Algeria dominate this issue.

Statistics from Paris's debtors' prison show that of roughly 200 prisoners released annually between 1837 and 1844, not one paid the principal owed — 169, or seventeen-twentieths, left without paying a sou to their creditors.
French military intelligence places Abd-el-Kader some 25–30 leagues south of Tiaret with considerable cavalry, threatening the Ouled Aïad tribe whose chief submitted to France in 1842; Generals Reveu and Bourjolly are moving to intercept him.
Restoration workers at Notre-Dame de Paris are replacing broken columns in the gallery of kings, numbering every fragment and storing them in the loft — all on a maintenance budget that has not exceeded 3,000 francs annually since the Empire.

Colonel Krosnowski was acquitted by the Seine Assizes jury, which deliberated barely fifteen minutes, of attempted murder of his brother-in-law Paul Hervé on the Boulevard on 18 November — his defender Maître Dupin invoking legitimate self-defence after a four-hour address.
A young Valenciennes laundress, three days in labour and facing a Caesarean section, slipped away in the night, made her way to the bank of the Rhonelle river, and drowned herself; her body was found Friday morning near the rue des Anges.

London experiments with a new weapon powered by compressed gas ignited by an electric spark can discharge 1,000 lead balls per minute, piercing 24-centimetre timbers at 18 metres and mounted on a horse-drawn carriage.

Publisher Joubert has released Jules Simon's second volume of the Histoire de l'École d'Alexandrie alongside a new edition of Victor Cousin's Défense de l'Université et de la Philosophie, augmented by speeches on the Michelet and Quinet lecture controversies.

Five North African almées and five musicians playing the tarabout arrived at Marseilles aboard the packet-boat Le Pharamond, bound for a tour of France to display their dancing.

XLIV. The Vendetta

French debate over imprisonment for debt, the Krosnowski attempted-murder trial, and Abd-el-Kader's movements in Algeria dominate this issue.

Statistics from Paris's debtors' prison show that of roughly 200 prisoners released annually between 1837 and 1844, not one paid the principal owed — 169, or seventeen-twentieths, left without paying a sou to their creditors.
French military intelligence places Abd-el-Kader some 25–30 leagues south of Tiaret with considerable cavalry, threatening the Ouled Aïad tribe whose chief submitted to France in 1842; Generals Reveu and Bourjolly are moving to intercept him.
Restoration workers at Notre-Dame de Paris are replacing broken columns in the gallery of kings, numbering every fragment and storing them in the loft — all on a maintenance budget that has not exceeded 3,000 francs annually since the Empire.

Colonel Krosnowski was acquitted by the Seine Assizes jury, which deliberated barely fifteen minutes, of attempted murder of his brother-in-law Paul Hervé on the Boulevard on 18 November — his defender Maître Dupin invoking legitimate self-defence after a four-hour address.
A young Valenciennes laundress, three days in labour and facing a Caesarean section, slipped away in the night, made her way to the bank of the Rhonelle river, and drowned herself; her body was found Friday morning near the rue des Anges.

London experiments with a new weapon powered by compressed gas ignited by an electric spark can discharge 1,000 lead balls per minute, piercing 24-centimetre timbers at 18 metres and mounted on a horse-drawn carriage.

Publisher Joubert has released Jules Simon's second volume of the Histoire de l'École d'Alexandrie alongside a new edition of Victor Cousin's Défense de l'Université et de la Philosophie, augmented by speeches on the Michelet and Quinet lecture controversies.

Five North African almées and five musicians playing the tarabout arrived at Marseilles aboard the packet-boat Le Pharamond, bound for a tour of France to display their dancing.