1845-08-30 · Journal des Débats

LXXIV. Le caveau de la famille Villefort

LXXIV. The Villefort Family Vault

The France-Morocco border treaty, Russia's capture of Shamil's stronghold Dargo, and Portugal's violent general elections dominate this issue.

The newly published France-Morocco Treaty of Lalla-Maghnia formally names Algeria an empire governed by the Emperor of the French — a concession Sultan Mouley-Abderrahman yielded only with the greatest difficulty, unprecedented in Muslim diplomacy.
Russian forces stormed Imam Shamil's mountain capital Dargo after eight hours of fighting through more than twenty forest barricades, losing General Fock and 162 men killed and wounded, while Shamil himself escaped.
Portugal's August elections turned violent: a ministerial voter was assassinated at Aldegalega and an opponent's house burned at Santarém, with the opposition leader Passos Manoel among those defeated.

Jules-Isaac Mirés, a 35-year-old Bordeaux wine trader, stood trial at the Seine assizes for stabbing his half-brother Édouard twice with a dagger in the Passage de l'Opéra, severing an artery; railway director Émile Pereire testified to the family's chronic quarrels.
Two poachers on the plan d'Aups near Marseille shot gendarme Niclot through the neck, killing him instantly, and wounded a second gendarme so gravely that his survival was in doubt.
Four young men capsized on Lake Aydat in the Auvergne; Gustave d'Incourt and Jocelyn de Raynaud drowned in forty feet of water and their bodies were recovered only after three hours and three passes of a net.

Queen Victoria attended a performance of Schiller's The Bride of Messina at Cobourg alongside the Queens of the Belgians, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, and the Prince of Württemberg; Cobourg's residents suppressed all public smoking for the duration of her stay.

Désiré Nisard's two-volume Histoire de la littérature française, tracing French letters from the Renaissance to the early seventeenth century, is published by Firmin Didot frères at 15 francs.

LXXIV. The Villefort Family Vault

The France-Morocco border treaty, Russia's capture of Shamil's stronghold Dargo, and Portugal's violent general elections dominate this issue.

The newly published France-Morocco Treaty of Lalla-Maghnia formally names Algeria an empire governed by the Emperor of the French — a concession Sultan Mouley-Abderrahman yielded only with the greatest difficulty, unprecedented in Muslim diplomacy.
Russian forces stormed Imam Shamil's mountain capital Dargo after eight hours of fighting through more than twenty forest barricades, losing General Fock and 162 men killed and wounded, while Shamil himself escaped.
Portugal's August elections turned violent: a ministerial voter was assassinated at Aldegalega and an opponent's house burned at Santarém, with the opposition leader Passos Manoel among those defeated.

Jules-Isaac Mirés, a 35-year-old Bordeaux wine trader, stood trial at the Seine assizes for stabbing his half-brother Édouard twice with a dagger in the Passage de l'Opéra, severing an artery; railway director Émile Pereire testified to the family's chronic quarrels.
Two poachers on the plan d'Aups near Marseille shot gendarme Niclot through the neck, killing him instantly, and wounded a second gendarme so gravely that his survival was in doubt.
Four young men capsized on Lake Aydat in the Auvergne; Gustave d'Incourt and Jocelyn de Raynaud drowned in forty feet of water and their bodies were recovered only after three hours and three passes of a net.

Queen Victoria attended a performance of Schiller's The Bride of Messina at Cobourg alongside the Queens of the Belgians, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, and the Prince of Württemberg; Cobourg's residents suppressed all public smoking for the duration of her stay.

Désiré Nisard's two-volume Histoire de la littérature française, tracing French letters from the Renaissance to the early seventeenth century, is published by Firmin Didot frères at 15 francs.