CVI. Le partage
CVI. The Share-Out
Algeria's insurrections, the Lebanon disarming crisis, and the Marquis of Hertford inheritance trial dominate this issue.
- Insurgent leader Bou-Maza attacked the town of Tenez with hundreds of warriors on 9 November, had a horse killed under him in the fighting, and was still rousing Kabyle tribes along the coast days later.
- French frigate Belle-Poule commander armed six boats with roughly 300 men to force Ottoman troops at Jounieh to release Khalil Medawer, France's second dragoman, who had been beaten with sticks.
- In the Punjab, chief minister Sirdar Jowahir Singh was massacred by his own troops in revenge for the alleged assassination of Prince Peshora Singh, leaving the Queen Mother and Gulab Singh contending for power.
- A fire lasting over 14 hours destroyed two-thirds of the Dardanelles, burning more than 600 houses, the synagogue, a Greek convent, two mosques, and the vice-consulates of Denmark, Spain, and Sweden.
- In the Hertford inheritance trial, Mademoiselle Borel testified that the dying Marquis handed his valet Nicolas Suisse 100,000 francs in rente coupons she had just refused, after living with the Marquis since the age of sixteen.
- Convict Pierre Biret, already serving three years for theft, stole eleven sheets from the Conciergerie prison where he worked as an auxiliary employee at 12 francs a month; his wife cut up the sheets to hide the prison marks.
- The Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale elected chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas as its third president ever, replacing the ailing Baron Thénard, and voted to install a marble tablet naming its 27 founders.
- Abbé Maret's L'Athéisme et ses Périls pour la Société has already reached a third edition, its new preface directly refuting critics of his defence of Christianity against contemporary philosophy.