1845-08-27 · Journal des Débats

LXXIII. La promesse

LXXIII. The Promise

The Paris carpentry workers' strike trial, French Algeria's Kabyle pacification, and the Northern Railway concession dominate this issue.

A Paris tribunal sentenced strike leader Vincent to three years' imprisonment and twelve fellow carpentry journeymen to shorter terms after ruling their June 1845 coalition — which shut every Paris carpentry yard simultaneously — an illegal combination under Article 415 of the Penal Code.
A Bordeaux fire visible twelve leagues out to sea killed several firefighters including brigade commander Filhau; the duc d'Aumale, alerted by the glow from a nearby château, donated money for victims' families before the city opened a public subscription.

Marshal Bugeaud received the chiefs of all twelve fractions of the Béni-Djennad tribe in Algiers, where the khalifa Ben-Mahi-Eddin told the assembled Kabyles that Arab tribes now owning a hundred oxen where they once had one were proof enough of French benevolence.
Baron James de Rothschild was named president of the newly formed Northern Railway company, whose 150-million-franc capital drew 24,000 French subscribers and a board including Thomas Baring, Émile Pereire, and John Moss of the Grand Junction Railway.

Chemist Ebelmen succeeded in precipitating solid, transparent silica from silicic ether — dismissed by science correspondent Léon Foucault as emphatically not the same thing as making rock crystal, despite popular reports to the contrary.
MM. Reinaud and Favé presented to the Academy of Sciences their finding that Arab manuscripts in the Bibliothèque royale reveal Greek fire to have been merely a crude, non-explosive precursor to gunpowder, debunking centuries of exaggerated accounts.

The duc and duchesse de Nemours were received at the restored château of Henri IV in Pau with sixty-cover dinners and massed acclamations, the prince's noted physical resemblance to portraits of Henri IV lending the occasion a striking dynastic charge.

Ivan Golovine's La Russie sous Nicolas Iᵉʳ, written by a Russian refugee in France, was published by Capello and described as containing information unobtainable elsewhere.

LXXIII. The Promise

The Paris carpentry workers' strike trial, French Algeria's Kabyle pacification, and the Northern Railway concession dominate this issue.

A Paris tribunal sentenced strike leader Vincent to three years' imprisonment and twelve fellow carpentry journeymen to shorter terms after ruling their June 1845 coalition — which shut every Paris carpentry yard simultaneously — an illegal combination under Article 415 of the Penal Code.
A Bordeaux fire visible twelve leagues out to sea killed several firefighters including brigade commander Filhau; the duc d'Aumale, alerted by the glow from a nearby château, donated money for victims' families before the city opened a public subscription.

Marshal Bugeaud received the chiefs of all twelve fractions of the Béni-Djennad tribe in Algiers, where the khalifa Ben-Mahi-Eddin told the assembled Kabyles that Arab tribes now owning a hundred oxen where they once had one were proof enough of French benevolence.
Baron James de Rothschild was named president of the newly formed Northern Railway company, whose 150-million-franc capital drew 24,000 French subscribers and a board including Thomas Baring, Émile Pereire, and John Moss of the Grand Junction Railway.

Chemist Ebelmen succeeded in precipitating solid, transparent silica from silicic ether — dismissed by science correspondent Léon Foucault as emphatically not the same thing as making rock crystal, despite popular reports to the contrary.
MM. Reinaud and Favé presented to the Academy of Sciences their finding that Arab manuscripts in the Bibliothèque royale reveal Greek fire to have been merely a crude, non-explosive precursor to gunpowder, debunking centuries of exaggerated accounts.

The duc and duchesse de Nemours were received at the restored château of Henri IV in Pau with sixty-cover dinners and massed acclamations, the prince's noted physical resemblance to portraits of Henri IV lending the occasion a striking dynastic charge.

Ivan Golovine's La Russie sous Nicolas Iᵉʳ, written by a Russian refugee in France, was published by Capello and described as containing information unobtainable elsewhere.