1845-11-14 · Journal des Débats

CIV. La signature Danglars

CIV. The Signature of Baron Danglars

The Zollverein tariff revisions, the Paris–Lyon railway concession, and the death of Napoleonic general Compans dominate this issue.

The Carlsruhe Zollverein congress raised import duties on French luxury goods—ivory, enamel, coral, wallpapers, and woollen articles—by 50 to 300 percent, potentially affecting 1–5 million francs of annual French exports to Germany.
Lieutenant-General Comte Compans, whom Napoleon called 'a battle-general of the first distinction,' died at Blagnac near Toulouse; in 1814 he alone held the road to Paris against the Allies for five days with ten thousand largely conscript troops.
Haiti's President Pierrot decreed that any Haitian woman who married a foreigner would forfeit citizenship, property, and civil rights—while women who merely became foreigners' kept mistresses would retain them all.
Siberian gold mines yielded approximately 3,150 kilograms of pure gold in the first six months of 1845, of which 1,950 kilograms came from privately owned mines; the same period produced 707 kilograms of platinum.

A Limoges magistrate, his wife, their elder son, a lady's maid, and a cook were all poisoned by arsenic found in the family's soup; the cook remained in critical condition and the source of the poison was still unknown.
Carrier Hilaire Robert, convicted of systematically pilfering freight across sixty-eight sealed packages of stolen goods hidden in mattresses and trunks, was sentenced to ten years' réclusion and public exposure; his daughter received six years after threatening her concubine with denunciation if he refused to help.

Physicists Favre and Silbermann burned a diamond in their calorimeter and found it released more heat after being pre-heated than before—possibly because diamond retains heat like a thermophosphorescent body, a property they were unable to fully verify without destroying more of the costly material.
Le Verrier's new calculations of Uranus's orbit, using two independent methods, showed the planet's anomalous motion could be explained without inventing a hypothetical outer planet, vindicating Newton's laws of gravitation.

CIV. The Signature of Baron Danglars

The Zollverein tariff revisions, the Paris–Lyon railway concession, and the death of Napoleonic general Compans dominate this issue.

The Carlsruhe Zollverein congress raised import duties on French luxury goods—ivory, enamel, coral, wallpapers, and woollen articles—by 50 to 300 percent, potentially affecting 1–5 million francs of annual French exports to Germany.
Lieutenant-General Comte Compans, whom Napoleon called 'a battle-general of the first distinction,' died at Blagnac near Toulouse; in 1814 he alone held the road to Paris against the Allies for five days with ten thousand largely conscript troops.
Haiti's President Pierrot decreed that any Haitian woman who married a foreigner would forfeit citizenship, property, and civil rights—while women who merely became foreigners' kept mistresses would retain them all.
Siberian gold mines yielded approximately 3,150 kilograms of pure gold in the first six months of 1845, of which 1,950 kilograms came from privately owned mines; the same period produced 707 kilograms of platinum.

A Limoges magistrate, his wife, their elder son, a lady's maid, and a cook were all poisoned by arsenic found in the family's soup; the cook remained in critical condition and the source of the poison was still unknown.
Carrier Hilaire Robert, convicted of systematically pilfering freight across sixty-eight sealed packages of stolen goods hidden in mattresses and trunks, was sentenced to ten years' réclusion and public exposure; his daughter received six years after threatening her concubine with denunciation if he refused to help.

Physicists Favre and Silbermann burned a diamond in their calorimeter and found it released more heat after being pre-heated than before—possibly because diamond retains heat like a thermophosphorescent body, a property they were unable to fully verify without destroying more of the costly material.
Le Verrier's new calculations of Uranus's orbit, using two independent methods, showed the planet's anomalous motion could be explained without inventing a hypothetical outer planet, vindicating Newton's laws of gravitation.