1845-08-02 · Journal des Débats

LIX. Le testament · LX. Le télégraphe

LIX. The Will (cont.) · LX. The Telegraph

Texas annexation, British defence debates, and the Quebec fires dominate this issue.

The Texian Congress voted annexation to the United States on 18–19 June, unanimously rejecting Mexican peace overtures brokered by French and British diplomats.
Lord Palmerston warned the Commons that France's steam fleet could transport 290,000 troops across the Channel, demanding militia reorganisation; Sir Robert Peel replied that 80,000 armed pensioners made such fears groundless.

Quebec was devastated a second time on 28 June — exactly one month after its first great fire — destroying roughly 1,300 houses, leaving 6,000 homeless, and costing insurers 380,000 dollars.
The steamboat Magnolie exploded on departure from New Orleans, hurling passengers 150–200 feet into the air; between 30 and 40 people were killed or wounded.
Prince de Berghes was remanded to the Assize Court accused of forging some 2,000 francs' worth of Jockey-Club tokens bearing a cashier's signature.

The Académie des Inscriptions awarded its gold medal to 83-year-old M. Cauvin for his 700-page Géographie ancienne du diocèse du Mans, begun when he was 71; historian Augustin Thierry, blind and crippled, had a fragment of his history of the Third Estate read aloud in his absence.

Don Carlos, the Carlist pretender, arrived with the Princess of Beira at the thermal spa of Gréoulx, occupying the apartment once used by Napoleon's sister Pauline Bonaparte.

A new book Rome et Naples was noted for treating art questions from an elevated standpoint with vivid descriptive writing.

LIX. The Will (cont.) · LX. The Telegraph

Texas annexation, British defence debates, and the Quebec fires dominate this issue.

The Texian Congress voted annexation to the United States on 18–19 June, unanimously rejecting Mexican peace overtures brokered by French and British diplomats.
Lord Palmerston warned the Commons that France's steam fleet could transport 290,000 troops across the Channel, demanding militia reorganisation; Sir Robert Peel replied that 80,000 armed pensioners made such fears groundless.

Quebec was devastated a second time on 28 June — exactly one month after its first great fire — destroying roughly 1,300 houses, leaving 6,000 homeless, and costing insurers 380,000 dollars.
The steamboat Magnolie exploded on departure from New Orleans, hurling passengers 150–200 feet into the air; between 30 and 40 people were killed or wounded.
Prince de Berghes was remanded to the Assize Court accused of forging some 2,000 francs' worth of Jockey-Club tokens bearing a cashier's signature.

The Académie des Inscriptions awarded its gold medal to 83-year-old M. Cauvin for his 700-page Géographie ancienne du diocèse du Mans, begun when he was 71; historian Augustin Thierry, blind and crippled, had a fragment of his history of the Third Estate read aloud in his absence.

Don Carlos, the Carlist pretender, arrived with the Princess of Beira at the thermal spa of Gréoulx, occupying the apartment once used by Napoleon's sister Pauline Bonaparte.

A new book Rome et Naples was noted for treating art questions from an elevated standpoint with vivid descriptive writing.