1845-07-03 · Journal des Débats

XLIV. La vendetta

XLIV. The Vendetta

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The Lebanon crisis, Abd-el-Kader's movements in Morocco and Algeria, and the death of British Attorney-General Sir William Follett dominate this issue.

Druze fighters in Lebanon have hanged women from trees by their hair, levied forced contributions on convents, and massacred Christians while Turkish authorities provided what the paper calls 'passive connivance' — prompting urgent calls for European intervention.
Abd-el-Kader, gravely ill with lung inflammation, slipped away overnight from a Moroccan blockade, abandoned his family and entire tribal following to the caïd Chefaï, then led a surprise raid that pillaged Sétif in eastern Algeria.
Sir William Follett, widely considered the most persuasive orator at the English Bar and the heir apparent to the Lord Chancellorship, died of consumption at forty-seven, having concealed his terminal prognosis even during his triumphant return to the Commons.

The slave-ship Felicitade — once captured, then retaken by its crew with a murder — finally capsized in a storm 200 miles from Cape Trois-Pointes; survivors spent twenty days on a makeshift raft, watching their companions die of thirst and madness before rescue.
A canon of the chapters of Troyes and Strasbourg, the abbé Demaire — who had preached Lenten sermons at Notre-Dame de Paris the previous winter — was convicted in camera of outrages against morality and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

Napoleon's former personal valet, Louis-Constant Wairy, known simply as 'Constant' and author of celebrated imperial memoirs, died at Breteuil at the age of sixty-seven.

Philosopher Émile Saisset's forthcoming Essay on Philosophy and Religion, excerpted at length, argues that neither clerical opponents of free thought nor anti-Catholic radicals grasp that philosophy and Christianity ultimately 'bow before the same God.'

Prague architect Charles Kranner has invented a process for boring and polishing stone to manufacture water pipes, claimed to be cheaper than cast-iron and self-cleaning due to their glazed interior walls.

XLIV. The Vendetta

The Lebanon crisis, Abd-el-Kader's movements in Morocco and Algeria, and the death of British Attorney-General Sir William Follett dominate this issue.

Druze fighters in Lebanon have hanged women from trees by their hair, levied forced contributions on convents, and massacred Christians while Turkish authorities provided what the paper calls 'passive connivance' — prompting urgent calls for European intervention.
Abd-el-Kader, gravely ill with lung inflammation, slipped away overnight from a Moroccan blockade, abandoned his family and entire tribal following to the caïd Chefaï, then led a surprise raid that pillaged Sétif in eastern Algeria.
Sir William Follett, widely considered the most persuasive orator at the English Bar and the heir apparent to the Lord Chancellorship, died of consumption at forty-seven, having concealed his terminal prognosis even during his triumphant return to the Commons.

The slave-ship Felicitade — once captured, then retaken by its crew with a murder — finally capsized in a storm 200 miles from Cape Trois-Pointes; survivors spent twenty days on a makeshift raft, watching their companions die of thirst and madness before rescue.
A canon of the chapters of Troyes and Strasbourg, the abbé Demaire — who had preached Lenten sermons at Notre-Dame de Paris the previous winter — was convicted in camera of outrages against morality and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

Napoleon's former personal valet, Louis-Constant Wairy, known simply as 'Constant' and author of celebrated imperial memoirs, died at Breteuil at the age of sixty-seven.

Philosopher Émile Saisset's forthcoming Essay on Philosophy and Religion, excerpted at length, argues that neither clerical opponents of free thought nor anti-Catholic radicals grasp that philosophy and Christianity ultimately 'bow before the same God.'

Prague architect Charles Kranner has invented a process for boring and polishing stone to manufacture water pipes, claimed to be cheaper than cast-iron and self-cleaning due to their glazed interior walls.