1845-08-29 · Journal des Débats

LXXIII. La promesse

LXXIII. The Promise

British East Indies trade statistics, the Tuareg of the Sahara, and upheaval in Madrid dominate this issue.

Britain's East India Company logged 963 vessels and 597,000 tons of shipping east of the Cape in the first half of 1845, with opium imports into China reaching nearly 41,000 chests worth roughly 100 million francs.
French officers mapping Algeria describe Tuareg nomads who leave love poems in an ancient Berber script — possibly derived from Phoenician writing — carved on stones across the Sahara.
Madrid's three Liberal newspapers, forced by the civil governor to keep publishing after the disturbances of 19 August, confined themselves to silence on events while Captain-General Mazarredo praised his troops' restraint against 'hired bravos.'

A retired librarian's pet monkey named Jobé was shot by Dr Guédon after being caught stealing jewellery; a search of the bibliomaniac's book-crammed rooms recovered nearly every item that had vanished from the rue de Vaugirard building over months.
Five members of a family were poisoned after gathering and eating wild mushrooms from the Bois de Boulogne; three died, including a ten-year-old boy, and two survivors were left with little hope.

Scholar Charles Magnin has published the first accessible edition of the plays of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, the tenth-century Saxon canoness whose Latin dramas — including the penitential Paphnutius — are now judged a landmark of medieval theatre.
A long scholarly article identifies the manuscripts of Siger of Brabant, unread for six centuries in the old Sorbonne library, and argues that Dante must have heard him lecture on the rue du Fouarre before writing his famous tribute in Paradiso X.

Engineer Mr. Juckes's self-loading revolving grate, which eliminates coal smoke and showed a 15 per cent fuel saving in trials at a Paris workshop, has been introduced into France and adopted at the royal tobacco manufactory.

LXXIII. The Promise

British East Indies trade statistics, the Tuareg of the Sahara, and upheaval in Madrid dominate this issue.

Britain's East India Company logged 963 vessels and 597,000 tons of shipping east of the Cape in the first half of 1845, with opium imports into China reaching nearly 41,000 chests worth roughly 100 million francs.
French officers mapping Algeria describe Tuareg nomads who leave love poems in an ancient Berber script — possibly derived from Phoenician writing — carved on stones across the Sahara.
Madrid's three Liberal newspapers, forced by the civil governor to keep publishing after the disturbances of 19 August, confined themselves to silence on events while Captain-General Mazarredo praised his troops' restraint against 'hired bravos.'

A retired librarian's pet monkey named Jobé was shot by Dr Guédon after being caught stealing jewellery; a search of the bibliomaniac's book-crammed rooms recovered nearly every item that had vanished from the rue de Vaugirard building over months.
Five members of a family were poisoned after gathering and eating wild mushrooms from the Bois de Boulogne; three died, including a ten-year-old boy, and two survivors were left with little hope.

Scholar Charles Magnin has published the first accessible edition of the plays of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, the tenth-century Saxon canoness whose Latin dramas — including the penitential Paphnutius — are now judged a landmark of medieval theatre.
A long scholarly article identifies the manuscripts of Siger of Brabant, unread for six centuries in the old Sorbonne library, and argues that Dante must have heard him lecture on the rue du Fouarre before writing his famous tribute in Paradiso X.

Engineer Mr. Juckes's self-loading revolving grate, which eliminates coal smoke and showed a 15 per cent fuel saving in trials at a Paris workshop, has been introduced into France and adopted at the royal tobacco manufactory.