CXIV. Peppino · CXV. La carte de Luigi Vampa
CXIV. Peppino (cont.) · CXV. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare
The Chamber of Deputies installs its permanent bureau, lithographer Charlet dies, and the Oregon boundary dispute dominates news from London and Washington.
- Lithographer Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, celebrated painter of Napoleon's soldiers and Paris street life, died leaving an unfinished epic, L'Empereur et la Garde impériale, with only two instalments completed.
- Chamber president Sauzet paid tribute to the late Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, who was elected by seven constituencies simultaneously — an unprecedented parliamentary honour — while the outgoing president Sapey warned against railway speculation disturbing public morality.
- British and American negotiators Pakenham and Buchanan reportedly resumed talks on the Oregon boundary at the 49th parallel, even as a congressional proposal called for arming 200,000 militia and spending 10 million dollars on defence.
- Philanthropist Benjamin Delessert proposed that the Navy Minister order large-scale trials of cork-powder mattresses as life-saving devices, after a demonstration on the Seine showed five men could float on a single 16-kilogram mattress.
- Writer Émile Brée, arrested sixty-one times for hawking his Almanach-Catéchisme-Manuel du Peuple door-to-door across sixty-seven communes, was convicted of inciting class hatred and sentenced to eighteen months in prison and a 300-franc fine.
- A widow selling gâteaux de Nanterre near the Tuileries convinced neighbours she was 'Jupiter', manager of a Palais-Royal society that rescued souls from Satan — extracting 150 francs from a cobbler and a signed bond for 250 francs.
- Three new publications from Jules Renouard et Cie aim to introduce French readers to German culture, including the first French edition of the Tales of the Brothers Grimm, described as the most popular book in Germany.
- Chemist Justus Liebig was created a baron by the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt on 26 December, the day the Grand Duke turned sixty-nine.