1845-11-28 · Journal des Débats

CIX. Les assises

CIX. The Assizes

The Vaud Church-State rupture, Tsar Nicholas I's Sicilian stay, and a Paris murder trial dominate this issue.

153 pastors in Canton Vaud collectively resigned their official posts rather than accept state control of their ministry, with the Grand Council granting dictatorial powers to radical leader Henri Druey by 128 votes to 55.
Tsar Nicholas I, travelling incognito as 'General Romanoff' at the Villa Olivazza near Palermo, received King Ferdinand II aboard a Russian steamship dressed in cuirassier's uniform, embracing his royal guest at the top of the starboard ladder.
Ibrahim Pasha — victor of Konya and Nezib — arrived in Genoa and caused such a sensation at a nobleman's ball that the dancing stopped mid-quadrille, even interrupting the set in which the Duke of Genoa was dancing.

Convicted felon Joseph Porthault, who stabbed three people in a Paris corridor over a mistress — crying 'Eugénie, it is for you that blood has flowed' — was condemned to death and acknowledged the sentence with only a slight nod of the head.
A Paris tribunal condemned the ailing composer Donizetti by default to pay publisher Schonenberger 20,000 francs in damages for withdrawing Dom Sébastien from the Paris stage after the publisher had already exchanged publication rights with Ricordi in Milan.

Physicists Léon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau reported producing light-interference fringes at a path difference of nearly 4,000 undulations — far surpassing the previous limit of under a hundred — by analysing the results through a solar spectrum.
Surgeon Charles-Gabriel Pravaz presented two patients, confirmed congenitally dislocated at the hip in 1843, who walked unaided into the Academy to demonstrate his cure: sustained motion in a retentive apparatus to induce the body to form a new hip socket.

Frédérick-Lemaître is to perform at the Porte-Saint-Martin on Saturday for his own benefit, while a new tragedy, Le Spectre, rejected by the Comédie-Française, has been accepted unanimously by the Odéon.

CIX. The Assizes

The Vaud Church-State rupture, Tsar Nicholas I's Sicilian stay, and a Paris murder trial dominate this issue.

153 pastors in Canton Vaud collectively resigned their official posts rather than accept state control of their ministry, with the Grand Council granting dictatorial powers to radical leader Henri Druey by 128 votes to 55.
Tsar Nicholas I, travelling incognito as 'General Romanoff' at the Villa Olivazza near Palermo, received King Ferdinand II aboard a Russian steamship dressed in cuirassier's uniform, embracing his royal guest at the top of the starboard ladder.
Ibrahim Pasha — victor of Konya and Nezib — arrived in Genoa and caused such a sensation at a nobleman's ball that the dancing stopped mid-quadrille, even interrupting the set in which the Duke of Genoa was dancing.

Convicted felon Joseph Porthault, who stabbed three people in a Paris corridor over a mistress — crying 'Eugénie, it is for you that blood has flowed' — was condemned to death and acknowledged the sentence with only a slight nod of the head.
A Paris tribunal condemned the ailing composer Donizetti by default to pay publisher Schonenberger 20,000 francs in damages for withdrawing Dom Sébastien from the Paris stage after the publisher had already exchanged publication rights with Ricordi in Milan.

Physicists Léon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau reported producing light-interference fringes at a path difference of nearly 4,000 undulations — far surpassing the previous limit of under a hundred — by analysing the results through a solar spectrum.
Surgeon Charles-Gabriel Pravaz presented two patients, confirmed congenitally dislocated at the hip in 1843, who walked unaided into the Academy to demonstrate his cure: sustained motion in a retentive apparatus to induce the body to form a new hip socket.

Frédérick-Lemaître is to perform at the Porte-Saint-Martin on Saturday for his own benefit, while a new tragedy, Le Spectre, rejected by the Comédie-Française, has been accepted unanimously by the Odéon.