1845-10-25 · Journal des Débats

XCVI. Le contrat

XCVI. The Marriage Contract

French operations against Abd-el-Kader in Algeria, the Irish potato blight, and the Nile Delta Barrage dominate this issue.

General de Lamoricière fought Abd-el-Kader across four days of sharp engagements on 12–15 October; Abd-el-Kader, commanding 2,000 cavalry, watched as a spectator before fleeing when cornered at a defile.
The Emperor of China has issued an imperial edict revoking all penalties against Chinese Christians and authorising them to profess Christianity publicly — a diplomatic coup secured by French minister Lagrené at Whampoa.
Russia is offering Baltic-province peasants 50 roubles and food relief for converting to the Greek Orthodox Church, threatening to strip Esthonia, Livonia, and Courland of their Lutheran faith entirely within a few years.

At a hastily arranged Milan review in honour of Tsar Nicholas I, Marshal Radetzky's troops were accidentally issued live ball cartridges; several bystanders were shot, one fatally, and the casualty count was suppressed.
The village of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse was obliterated in three-quarters of an hour: all 27 buildings burned to their foundations, both church bells melted, and 42 families left homeless with losses estimated at 500,000 francs.
A Parisian confidence trickster befriended a provincial abbé at a Seine diving-bell demonstration, dined at the priest's expense, stole silverware from the restaurant, and left the abbé to discover his watch and purse had also vanished.

An Irish agricultural council report found the potato blight present in nearly every county, with the county of Mayo entirely devastated; Professor Kane's committee was testing eight preservation methods, from salt-sprinkling to clay burial, but could not yet recommend any.

Bouffé appears at the Théâtre du Gymnase in l'Abbé Galant, playing a guileless young abbé in a vaudeville piece praised for displaying his supple and many-sided comic talent.

XCVI. The Marriage Contract

French operations against Abd-el-Kader in Algeria, the Irish potato blight, and the Nile Delta Barrage dominate this issue.

General de Lamoricière fought Abd-el-Kader across four days of sharp engagements on 12–15 October; Abd-el-Kader, commanding 2,000 cavalry, watched as a spectator before fleeing when cornered at a defile.
The Emperor of China has issued an imperial edict revoking all penalties against Chinese Christians and authorising them to profess Christianity publicly — a diplomatic coup secured by French minister Lagrené at Whampoa.
Russia is offering Baltic-province peasants 50 roubles and food relief for converting to the Greek Orthodox Church, threatening to strip Esthonia, Livonia, and Courland of their Lutheran faith entirely within a few years.

At a hastily arranged Milan review in honour of Tsar Nicholas I, Marshal Radetzky's troops were accidentally issued live ball cartridges; several bystanders were shot, one fatally, and the casualty count was suppressed.
The village of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse was obliterated in three-quarters of an hour: all 27 buildings burned to their foundations, both church bells melted, and 42 families left homeless with losses estimated at 500,000 francs.
A Parisian confidence trickster befriended a provincial abbé at a Seine diving-bell demonstration, dined at the priest's expense, stole silverware from the restaurant, and left the abbé to discover his watch and purse had also vanished.

An Irish agricultural council report found the potato blight present in nearly every county, with the county of Mayo entirely devastated; Professor Kane's committee was testing eight preservation methods, from salt-sprinkling to clay burial, but could not yet recommend any.

Bouffé appears at the Théâtre du Gymnase in l'Abbé Galant, playing a guileless young abbé in a vaudeville piece praised for displaying his supple and many-sided comic talent.