LII. Pyrame et Thysbé
LII. Pyramus and Thisbe
France's Chamber of Peers passes the 1846 expenditure budget, while Texas independence is recognised and political manifestos multiply before anticipated elections.
- The Chamber of Peers adopted the 1846 expenditure budget 87 votes to 27 after a fierce debate over whether an article requiring all Légion d'Honneur appointments to be published in the Moniteur violated the upper house's constitutional prerogatives.
- Mexico formally recognised Texan independence under a treaty brokered by British and French ministers, requiring Texas to refuse annexation to any foreign power and settling frontier disputes by arbitration — but the Texan Convention still had to choose between independence and joining the United States.
- The centre gauche published its electoral manifesto, drawing ridicule from the Journal des Débats, which noted the opposition simultaneously claimed credit for abolishing the right of search, dissolving the Jesuits, and rewriting every major law — while still demanding to overthrow the ministry that, they said, governed at their direction.
- Professor Edgar Quinet of the Collège de France was publicly rebuked for turning his chair in the Languages and Literatures of the South into lectures on the French Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the Battle of Waterloo, with the Journal des Débats drawing an explicit parallel to a Paris priest censured for preaching politics from the pulpit.
- France's indirect tax revenues for the first half of 1845 reached 390 million francs, a surplus of nearly 12 million over 1844, and double the yield of 1830 — with tobacco alone contributing 54 million and the post 25 million.
- A 32-year-old man named Jean Guitton beat his mother to death with a curved branch near Saintes after she struck him first, then told bystanders: 'It is true, I killed her; let them do the same to me.'
- A convicted omnibus pickpocket who had reinvented himself as 'Baron de —' was caught cutting a woman's dress with scissors on the Montmartre omnibus, fled on foot, then shot himself in the chest rather than be recaptured — and survived.
- The Duke of Montpensier, youngest son of Louis-Philippe, was travelling to Constantinople aboard the steam vessel Gomer, whose captain had been given the special distinction of serving as his provisional aide-de-camp.