1845-07-17 · Journal des Débats

L. La famille Morrel · LI. Pyrame et Thysbé

L. The Morrels (cont.) · LI. Pyramus and Thisbe

The Chamber of Peers debates Algeria, the Collège de France controversy, and the French navy's condition.

Marshal Soult defended Colonel Pélissier's actions in the Dahra cave suffocations, arguing that in African warfare, what would be monstrous in Europe becomes a grim necessity — drawing both condemnation and applause from the Chamber of Peers.
The Journal des Débats turned the tables on the Catholic paper L'Univers: by blocking any reprimand of Michelet and Quinet at the Collège de France, Catholics now bear full moral responsibility for whatever those professors teach.
Vice-Admiral Gueydon told the Chamber that 300 ship's boys trained at Brest for 400 francs a year each could, if scaled to 3,000, solve France's entire naval manpower shortage — and some graduates were already first masters on men-of-war.
A British sentry at the Vice-Regal Palace in Dublin poked his head out to investigate a noise at 1 a.m. and was immediately shot through the left hand, requiring amputation.

Baroness de Rothschild's fête at Gunnersbury Park for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge drew over 600 guests, featured the Milanollo sisters on violin, conductor Jullien with thirty musicians, and a cavalry regimental band playing across a lake.

A nineteen-year-old cabinet-maker's wife in the Rue Moreau blindfolded herself with a knotted handkerchief, sewed her dress to her stockings for modesty, climbed onto a chair, and threw herself from a fifth-floor window onto the pavement.
Convict N. F. Baudouin — condemned to perpetual hard labour for stabbing his wife repeatedly with a knife — harangued the crowd from the public pillory on the Place du Palais-de-Justice for a quarter of an hour before fainting and being carried back to the Conciergerie.

The electro-magnetic telegraph between Baltimore and Washington, covering roughly twenty-five leagues, was already handling merchant orders so swiftly that goods requested at 4:30 p.m. could leave on the 5 o'clock train.

L. The Morrels (cont.) · LI. Pyramus and Thisbe

The Chamber of Peers debates Algeria, the Collège de France controversy, and the French navy's condition.

Marshal Soult defended Colonel Pélissier's actions in the Dahra cave suffocations, arguing that in African warfare, what would be monstrous in Europe becomes a grim necessity — drawing both condemnation and applause from the Chamber of Peers.
The Journal des Débats turned the tables on the Catholic paper L'Univers: by blocking any reprimand of Michelet and Quinet at the Collège de France, Catholics now bear full moral responsibility for whatever those professors teach.
Vice-Admiral Gueydon told the Chamber that 300 ship's boys trained at Brest for 400 francs a year each could, if scaled to 3,000, solve France's entire naval manpower shortage — and some graduates were already first masters on men-of-war.
A British sentry at the Vice-Regal Palace in Dublin poked his head out to investigate a noise at 1 a.m. and was immediately shot through the left hand, requiring amputation.

Baroness de Rothschild's fête at Gunnersbury Park for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge drew over 600 guests, featured the Milanollo sisters on violin, conductor Jullien with thirty musicians, and a cavalry regimental band playing across a lake.

A nineteen-year-old cabinet-maker's wife in the Rue Moreau blindfolded herself with a knotted handkerchief, sewed her dress to her stockings for modesty, climbed onto a chair, and threw herself from a fifth-floor window onto the pavement.
Convict N. F. Baudouin — condemned to perpetual hard labour for stabbing his wife repeatedly with a knife — harangued the crowd from the public pillory on the Place du Palais-de-Justice for a quarter of an hour before fainting and being carried back to the Conciergerie.

The electro-magnetic telegraph between Baltimore and Washington, covering roughly twenty-five leagues, was already handling merchant orders so swiftly that goods requested at 4:30 p.m. could leave on the 5 o'clock train.