1845-09-03 · Journal des Débats

LXXVI. Les progrès de Cavalcanti fils

LXXVI. The Progress of the Younger Cavalcanti

The Bonn Beethoven festival, British ambitions in China, and the funeral of inventor Philippe de Girard dominate this issue.

Hector Berlioz reports that Jenny Lind, performing privately at the King of Prussia's château de Brühl, possesses a voice of 'incredible suppleness' that surpasses anything heard on the French or German stages — though the piece she sang as Pacini's was almost certainly Meyerbeer's.
Franz Liszt's cantata for the Beethoven statue inauguration earned three-quarters of the hall's applause despite organised opposition, and Berlioz declares it 'a great and beautiful thing' that 'at a single stroke places Liszt very high among composers.'

Britain holds the fertile island of Chusan only until 31 December 1845, and is already spending heavily there to build a lasting base — while engineers debate whether Hong Kong can ever be more than a headquarters for opium merchants.

Philippe de Girard, inventor of mechanical flax-spinning, died cold and penniless last winter despite his process saving hundreds of millions annually; nearly 2,000 mourners followed his coffin from the Place de la Concorde to Père-Lachaise.

An octogenarian retired upholsterer who survived the storming of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 by disguising himself in a carmagnole left his nephews an armchair stuffed with 43 rolls of gold coins and a 1,000-franc government bond.
Fugitive bankrupt Briguiboule, who owed 60,000 francs, was caught hiding in a law student's lodgings in the rue Saint-Victor — disguised as the student's brother — after police traced him across Paris.

The Duke of Aumale presided over the Gironde Agricultural Society prize-giving at Langon, personally handing a gold watch to ploughman Jean Dumeau and another to a farm family that has cultivated the same fields for two centuries.

Rachel returns to the Comédie-Française tomorrow in Virginie after a three-month provincial tour, while the theatre is rehearsing Voltaire's Oreste with Rachel in the role of Electra.

LXXVI. The Progress of the Younger Cavalcanti

The Bonn Beethoven festival, British ambitions in China, and the funeral of inventor Philippe de Girard dominate this issue.

Hector Berlioz reports that Jenny Lind, performing privately at the King of Prussia's château de Brühl, possesses a voice of 'incredible suppleness' that surpasses anything heard on the French or German stages — though the piece she sang as Pacini's was almost certainly Meyerbeer's.
Franz Liszt's cantata for the Beethoven statue inauguration earned three-quarters of the hall's applause despite organised opposition, and Berlioz declares it 'a great and beautiful thing' that 'at a single stroke places Liszt very high among composers.'

Britain holds the fertile island of Chusan only until 31 December 1845, and is already spending heavily there to build a lasting base — while engineers debate whether Hong Kong can ever be more than a headquarters for opium merchants.

Philippe de Girard, inventor of mechanical flax-spinning, died cold and penniless last winter despite his process saving hundreds of millions annually; nearly 2,000 mourners followed his coffin from the Place de la Concorde to Père-Lachaise.

An octogenarian retired upholsterer who survived the storming of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 by disguising himself in a carmagnole left his nephews an armchair stuffed with 43 rolls of gold coins and a 1,000-franc government bond.
Fugitive bankrupt Briguiboule, who owed 60,000 francs, was caught hiding in a law student's lodgings in the rue Saint-Victor — disguised as the student's brother — after police traced him across Paris.

The Duke of Aumale presided over the Gironde Agricultural Society prize-giving at Langon, personally handing a gold watch to ploughman Jean Dumeau and another to a farm family that has cultivated the same fields for two centuries.

Rachel returns to the Comédie-Française tomorrow in Virginie after a three-month provincial tour, while the theatre is rehearsing Voltaire's Oreste with Rachel in the role of Electra.