CIII. Maximilien
CIII. Maximilien
Marshal Soult's retirement from the War Ministry, the Irish potato famine crisis, and a Gretna Green elopement by Lady Adela Villiers dominate this issue.
- Marshal Soult, aged veteran of the Napoleonic wars, resigned as Minister of War but was persuaded by King Louis-Philippe and his cabinet colleagues to retain the presidency of the council.
- General Moline de Saint-Yon, appointed to replace Soult at the War Ministry, was promoted colonel at Waterloo in 1815 but waited fifteen years before the grade was confirmed.
- The British government's repeated cabinet councils on the Irish potato blight ended without any decree, leading French observers to conclude that the famine panic had been deliberately stoked by the Anti-Corn-Law League.
- Lady Adela Villiers, seventeen, daughter of the Earl of Jersey, eloped via railway to Gretna Green and married Captain Charles Ibbetson of the 11th Hussars within twenty-three hours of leaving Brighton — repeating her grandmother's own Gretna elopement of 1782.
- A hundred soldiers backing Colonel Reid at Windsor's parliamentary election armed themselves with sticks and brooms, beating tradespeople, women, and children through the streets before police restored order after an hour.
- Three recidivist thieves — Normand, Poisse, and Benoist, all previously sentenced to hard labour — were each condemned by the Seine Assizes to twenty years of hard labour and public exposure for burglaries in Bercy and Boulogne.
- Expert testimony at the Rouen commercial tribunal into the Monville factory disaster noted that bricks at the scene were burning hot yet no metal parts showed comparable heat — casting doubt on the lightning hypothesis.
- A workman widening a road near Toulouse unearthed a fossil elephant's tooth in fine preservation, acquired by Dr Noulet, professor of natural history at the École de Médecine de Toulouse, from a subsoil layer rich in Roman-era monuments.