1845-07-04 · Journal des Débats

XLV. La pluie de sang

XLV. The Shower of Blood

The French Chamber of Deputies closes its session, Marshal Bugeaud reports on Algeria, and Paris opens a grand new Hippodrome.

Marshal Bugeaud's dispatch from Algiers reports that Colonel Pélissier and two other column commanders simultaneously routed insurgents across the Dahra region, while the guerrilla leader Bou-Maza fled tribe to tribe with only a handful of followers.
The French Chamber of Deputies closed its seven-month session having voted 109 bills, including major railway concessions from Paris to Lyon, Strasbourg, and Belgium, and passing a total budget of over 1.7 milliard francs across three financial years.

A Jewish merchant named Fichel had his artist son paint a large copy of Prud'hon's Christ — valued at 600–800 francs — and donated it to the church of Vincennes, where it now hangs as the building's principal ornament.
Paris's new Hippodrome, an arena fifty times the size of the old Cirque des Champs-Élysées and holding over 15,000 spectators, opened on 4 July with amazon races, chariot races, Bedouin equestrians, and a hurdle contest; seventy-two-year-old Laurent Franconi drew the loudest applause riding a single horse with perfect precision.

A prisoner being escorted by gendarmes through Lunéville let out a sudden cry so violent it caused his guard's hand to convulse and release the chain; the man sprinted to the river and vanished under a bridge, only recaptured the following day in his home commune.
A father near Reims who cannot swim saved his drowning son by launching a cast-net over him at the precise moment the current was carrying the child beneath a mill-wheel.

Mademoiselle Rachel's seven-performance run in Nantes concluded with a sold-out Phèdre, the entire engagement taking in 30,085 francs at the box office.

Auguste Brizeux's new poem Les Bretons has just appeared, praised for recalling the elegiac charm of his celebrated Marie while rising at times to epic proportions.

XLV. The Shower of Blood

The French Chamber of Deputies closes its session, Marshal Bugeaud reports on Algeria, and Paris opens a grand new Hippodrome.

Marshal Bugeaud's dispatch from Algiers reports that Colonel Pélissier and two other column commanders simultaneously routed insurgents across the Dahra region, while the guerrilla leader Bou-Maza fled tribe to tribe with only a handful of followers.
The French Chamber of Deputies closed its seven-month session having voted 109 bills, including major railway concessions from Paris to Lyon, Strasbourg, and Belgium, and passing a total budget of over 1.7 milliard francs across three financial years.

A Jewish merchant named Fichel had his artist son paint a large copy of Prud'hon's Christ — valued at 600–800 francs — and donated it to the church of Vincennes, where it now hangs as the building's principal ornament.
Paris's new Hippodrome, an arena fifty times the size of the old Cirque des Champs-Élysées and holding over 15,000 spectators, opened on 4 July with amazon races, chariot races, Bedouin equestrians, and a hurdle contest; seventy-two-year-old Laurent Franconi drew the loudest applause riding a single horse with perfect precision.

A prisoner being escorted by gendarmes through Lunéville let out a sudden cry so violent it caused his guard's hand to convulse and release the chain; the man sprinted to the river and vanished under a bridge, only recaptured the following day in his home commune.
A father near Reims who cannot swim saved his drowning son by launching a cast-net over him at the precise moment the current was carrying the child beneath a mill-wheel.

Mademoiselle Rachel's seven-performance run in Nantes concluded with a sold-out Phèdre, the entire engagement taking in 30,085 francs at the box office.

Auguste Brizeux's new poem Les Bretons has just appeared, praised for recalling the elegiac charm of his celebrated Marie while rising at times to epic proportions.