1845-08-22 · Journal des Débats

LXX. Le bal

LXX. The Ball

The Bonn Beethoven festival, the Monville factory disaster, and the Irish Orange lodges crisis dominate this issue.

Hector Berlioz reports from Bonn that Liszt played Beethoven's Emperor Concerto 'in a marvellous fashion' and then conducted the Symphony in C minor as Beethoven actually wrote it — cuts and all — revealing it 'still more beautiful performed integrally.'
Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Meyerbeer, Moscheles, Spohr, Prince Albert of England, and François-Joseph Fétis were among the luminaries at Bonn — but the Paris Conservatoire and the Société des Concerts sent no official delegation, which Berlioz calls 'monstrous.'

A flash flood or explosion at three spinning-mills in the valley of Monville left at least 58 dead and 170 wounded; more than 200 families are destitute, and bodies so mutilated that many could not be identified.
At the Paris carpenters' coalition trial, a witness named Guignon cheerfully admitted he spent the entire strike 'going for walks' because he had enough to live on, provoking prolonged hilarity in the courtroom.

The British government is now moving against Orange lodges rather than O'Connell's Repeal Association, dismissing magistrates who attended the Enniskillen meeting; remaining Orangist officials plan to force mass dismissal as a challenge to the Lord-Lieutenant.
The King of Saxony personally visited Leipzig hospital after troops fired on crowds protesting near the Hôtel de Prusse, promising an inquiry and care for victims' children; his royal commissioner publicly exonerated Prince John of having ordered the volley.
The Duke of Montpensier, youngest son of King Louis-Philippe, dined with Méhémet-Ali in Alexandria on 8 August; the East India Company meanwhile presented the Viceroy with a silver fountain worth £7,500.

A 54-year-old father sat on the school benches beside his 16-year-old son at the communal school prize-giving in Paris's 1st arrondissement; the son won first prize for penmanship, and the father took second.

LXX. The Ball

The Bonn Beethoven festival, the Monville factory disaster, and the Irish Orange lodges crisis dominate this issue.

Hector Berlioz reports from Bonn that Liszt played Beethoven's Emperor Concerto 'in a marvellous fashion' and then conducted the Symphony in C minor as Beethoven actually wrote it — cuts and all — revealing it 'still more beautiful performed integrally.'
Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Meyerbeer, Moscheles, Spohr, Prince Albert of England, and François-Joseph Fétis were among the luminaries at Bonn — but the Paris Conservatoire and the Société des Concerts sent no official delegation, which Berlioz calls 'monstrous.'

A flash flood or explosion at three spinning-mills in the valley of Monville left at least 58 dead and 170 wounded; more than 200 families are destitute, and bodies so mutilated that many could not be identified.
At the Paris carpenters' coalition trial, a witness named Guignon cheerfully admitted he spent the entire strike 'going for walks' because he had enough to live on, provoking prolonged hilarity in the courtroom.

The British government is now moving against Orange lodges rather than O'Connell's Repeal Association, dismissing magistrates who attended the Enniskillen meeting; remaining Orangist officials plan to force mass dismissal as a challenge to the Lord-Lieutenant.
The King of Saxony personally visited Leipzig hospital after troops fired on crowds protesting near the Hôtel de Prusse, promising an inquiry and care for victims' children; his royal commissioner publicly exonerated Prince John of having ordered the volley.
The Duke of Montpensier, youngest son of King Louis-Philippe, dined with Méhémet-Ali in Alexandria on 8 August; the East India Company meanwhile presented the Viceroy with a silver fountain worth £7,500.

A 54-year-old father sat on the school benches beside his 16-year-old son at the communal school prize-giving in Paris's 1st arrondissement; the son won first prize for penmanship, and the father took second.