XLIV. La vendetta
XLIV. The Vendetta
France debates the Jesuits and railway concessions while Morocco ratifies a border treaty with Algeria.
- A Holy See congregation voted unanimously that Rome cannot intervene in France's constitutional dispute over the Jesuits, effectively leaving enforcement of French law to French authorities.
- The Chamber of Deputies approved the Paris–Strasbourg and Tours–Nantes railway bills by 246 votes to 5, rejecting a rival proposal that would have granted concessions of up to 90 years.
- Morocco's emperor reportedly agreed to ratify the Lalla Maghnia border treaty of 18 March, ending a dispute that had threatened to reopen hostilities on the Algerian frontier.
- Colonel Pélissier trapped the Oulad-Dria tribe inside caves near Orléansville and lit fires at the entrances, forcing their unconditional surrender through suffocation by smoke.
- Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid attended an Italian opera performance in the harem garden of Defterdarburnu palace, conversing throughout with an interpreter to follow the pieces, while women behind latticed grilles cheered enthusiastically.
- A workman named Sibille, who had saved enough to retire to the Auvergne and carried a conspicuous 100-franc gold piece, was bludgeoned, gagged with handkerchiefs, and strangled with a tourniquet near the Barrière de l'Étoile; three suspects were arrested.
- Army fodder contractors at Rambouillet had dampened and dusted hay to inflate its weight, stuffed trusses with refuse, and the adulterated feed was found to have caused abnormally high mortality among garrison horses.
- The 57th volume of the Dictionnaire de la Conversation features new articles on China, Communism by Louis Reybaud, Victor Cousin by Paula Coccaie, and a reinterpreted biography of Charles VII.