1845-07-26 · Journal des Débats

LVI. Andrea Cavalcanti

The assassination of Joseph Leu in Lucerne, the Smyrna fire, and French military operations in Algeria dominate this issue.

Joseph Leu, conservative Catholic leader of Lucerne, was shot dead in his bed at quarter past midnight by an assassin who pressed a carbine — not a pistol — against his heart, killing him instantly while his five-year-old son slept at his feet.
A fire at Smyrna burned for eighteen continuous hours, destroying more than 4,000 buildings, forty khans, four Turkish convents, the Armenian church, and the consulates of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Tuscany — losses estimated at 50 million francs.
Count Vorontsov's Russian force of twelve battalions, thirteen cavalry squadrons, and twenty-eight cannon routed 2,500–3,000 Caucasian mountaineers at Antchimeer, capturing the strategic position of Mitchikal; General Passek was recommended for the Order of Saint Stanislaus.
During a French razzia against the Beni-Ouraghr in Algeria, a carbineer of the 6th Léger rescued a wounded two-year-old girl whose mother had just been killed by a bullet; an officer of the general staff subsequently adopted the orphan.

The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited a Vierzon ironworks by night, watching rolling-mills and casting on a grand scale; the Duke, on behalf of King Louis-Philippe, conferred the cross of Officier of the Légion d'Honneur on the octogenarian founder of the works.

In Pouillon, a courtroom floor collapsed onto a primary school below during a public hearing; ninety-six children narrowly escaped because they happened to be gathered beneath the one section of beam still anchored to the wall.

A dolmen unearthed on the road between Bellevue and Meudon yielded bones of an estimated forty to fifty individuals, Celtic stone axes, and a horseshoe-shaped hollow in the central slab identified by geologist Eugène Robert as a probable altar for human sacrifice.

Victor Cousin's new Fragmens de Philosophie cartésienne opens with a biography of Vanini — burned as an atheist at Toulouse in 1619 — and closes with a call for modern philosophy to balance the omnipotence of God against the freedom of humanity.

LVI. Andrea Cavalcanti

The assassination of Joseph Leu in Lucerne, the Smyrna fire, and French military operations in Algeria dominate this issue.

Joseph Leu, conservative Catholic leader of Lucerne, was shot dead in his bed at quarter past midnight by an assassin who pressed a carbine — not a pistol — against his heart, killing him instantly while his five-year-old son slept at his feet.
A fire at Smyrna burned for eighteen continuous hours, destroying more than 4,000 buildings, forty khans, four Turkish convents, the Armenian church, and the consulates of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Tuscany — losses estimated at 50 million francs.
Count Vorontsov's Russian force of twelve battalions, thirteen cavalry squadrons, and twenty-eight cannon routed 2,500–3,000 Caucasian mountaineers at Antchimeer, capturing the strategic position of Mitchikal; General Passek was recommended for the Order of Saint Stanislaus.
During a French razzia against the Beni-Ouraghr in Algeria, a carbineer of the 6th Léger rescued a wounded two-year-old girl whose mother had just been killed by a bullet; an officer of the general staff subsequently adopted the orphan.

The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited a Vierzon ironworks by night, watching rolling-mills and casting on a grand scale; the Duke, on behalf of King Louis-Philippe, conferred the cross of Officier of the Légion d'Honneur on the octogenarian founder of the works.

In Pouillon, a courtroom floor collapsed onto a primary school below during a public hearing; ninety-six children narrowly escaped because they happened to be gathered beneath the one section of beam still anchored to the wall.

A dolmen unearthed on the road between Bellevue and Meudon yielded bones of an estimated forty to fifty individuals, Celtic stone axes, and a horseshoe-shaped hollow in the central slab identified by geologist Eugène Robert as a probable altar for human sacrifice.

Victor Cousin's new Fragmens de Philosophie cartésienne opens with a biography of Vanini — burned as an atheist at Toulouse in 1619 — and closes with a call for modern philosophy to balance the omnipotence of God against the freedom of humanity.