1845-08-01 · Journal des Débats

LVIII. M. Noirtier de Villefort · LIX. Le testament

LVIII. Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort · LIX. The Will

Lebanese peace negotiations, the Smyrna fire disaster, and a Spanish conspiracy attempt dominate this issue.

After devastating fire destroyed 863 of Smyrna's 900 Armenian-owned houses, the Sultan wept on hearing the news and donated 250,000 piastres from his privy purse, with total Muslim subscriptions in Constantinople expected to reach 1 million piastres.
In Malaga, a sergeant betrayed a plot by a thousand former national guardsmen to seize arms, form a junta in Espartero's name, and overthrow the government; seven implicated sergeants confessed within hours and a court martial was immediately convened.
French naval officers and sailors received the Légion d'Honneur for two punitive expeditions in November 1844 and February 1845 against Malays of Maluço, mounted to avenge the treacherous assassination of Ensign de Meynard and sailor Toche.
The Sbeah tribe of Algeria disguised themselves in the red burnouses stripped from two spahis they had murdered, then rode up to the aga Hadji-Ahmed — en route to collect his daughter-in-law on his son's wedding day — and shot him dead at point-blank range along with two caïds.

Paris starch-worker Pierre-Marie Beauchêne, who lured fellow workman Deyries into a pre-dawn field near Asnières with a fabricated marriage proposal, then struck him six hammer blows on the skull, was condemned to death after ten minutes of jury deliberation.
The Court of Cassation quashed the death sentence of wife-murderer Maginot solely because his bill of indictment had been served four days before trial instead of the legally required five, sending the case to a new assize court.

Baron Bosio, sculptor and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, born in Monaco, died in Paris aged seventy-six; his funeral was announced for 2 August at Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Workmen on road-works three miles from Ostia unearthed three statues and several cinerary urns of white marble with figures so finely carved that individual veins and sinews were distinguishable; an inscription found nearby was interpreted as recording a villa once adorned with fifty-five statues.

LVIII. Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort · LIX. The Will

Lebanese peace negotiations, the Smyrna fire disaster, and a Spanish conspiracy attempt dominate this issue.

After devastating fire destroyed 863 of Smyrna's 900 Armenian-owned houses, the Sultan wept on hearing the news and donated 250,000 piastres from his privy purse, with total Muslim subscriptions in Constantinople expected to reach 1 million piastres.
In Malaga, a sergeant betrayed a plot by a thousand former national guardsmen to seize arms, form a junta in Espartero's name, and overthrow the government; seven implicated sergeants confessed within hours and a court martial was immediately convened.
French naval officers and sailors received the Légion d'Honneur for two punitive expeditions in November 1844 and February 1845 against Malays of Maluço, mounted to avenge the treacherous assassination of Ensign de Meynard and sailor Toche.
The Sbeah tribe of Algeria disguised themselves in the red burnouses stripped from two spahis they had murdered, then rode up to the aga Hadji-Ahmed — en route to collect his daughter-in-law on his son's wedding day — and shot him dead at point-blank range along with two caïds.

Paris starch-worker Pierre-Marie Beauchêne, who lured fellow workman Deyries into a pre-dawn field near Asnières with a fabricated marriage proposal, then struck him six hammer blows on the skull, was condemned to death after ten minutes of jury deliberation.
The Court of Cassation quashed the death sentence of wife-murderer Maginot solely because his bill of indictment had been served four days before trial instead of the legally required five, sending the case to a new assize court.

Baron Bosio, sculptor and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, born in Monaco, died in Paris aged seventy-six; his funeral was announced for 2 August at Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Workmen on road-works three miles from Ostia unearthed three statues and several cinerary urns of white marble with figures so finely carved that individual veins and sinews were distinguishable; an inscription found nearby was interpreted as recording a villa once adorned with fifty-five statues.