1841 in France

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Chronology of France

1840 in France - 1841 - 1842 in France

Events

January

Thursday January 7th: Victor Hugo is elected with the French Academy with the armchair of Népomucène Lemercier with the first turn by 17 votes against 15 with Ancelot.
January 25th: Lamartine makes a speech against the project Thiers of fortification of Paris.
January 28th: Léopoldine Hugo goes to his first bal.

François Buloz hesitates to insert the article of Gobineau over Capo of Istria, in spite of the favorable opinion of Charles de Rémusat. Gobineau discounts that this article will raise criticisms on behalf of the friends of Capo of Istria. The Revue the East of the Scelti seems to take good tournure.

February

Monday: Law on the fortifications of Paris. The Room votes the project Thiers by 237 votes against 162.
February 6th: Lamartine is elected president of the Commission of the literary property. He projects to fix this one at fifty years.
February 22nd: Bugeaud takes indeed possession of its government of Algérie.
February 25th: Ancelot is elected with the French Academy.
February 27th: Startup with Grenelle of the first Artesian well, deep of more than 560 meters.

March

Friday March 19th: Victor Hugo starts to write his Speech of reception in Académie.
March 22nd: Relative law with the child work employed in manufactures, factories and workshops, first law regulating the business acquaintances: Following the investigation of Villermé, Table of the physical status and moral of the workmen in the silk and wool, cotton factories (1840), the Travail of the children is regulated in industry in France and organizes their protection. Work is interdict for less than 8 years, limited to 8 a.m. per day between 8 and 12 years.
March 23rd: Beginning of the debates with the Room on the literary property.
March 26th: Le summary of the Re-examined the East , publication intended to deal with the questions of the Christian East, is ready. Gobineau must make of it the introduction.
March 29th: The Room rejects the project Lamartine on the literary property by 154 votes against 108.

April

Saturday April 3rd: Law which assigns a credit of 140 franc million to creation of an enclosure strengthened to protect the capital. Said Thiers, name of the president of the Council of the moment, this enclosure is finished in 1845.
April 10th: Le project of Revue the East seems to be badly. In fact, it will not appear, not competed with in advance by the Eastern Review of Dr. Barrachin.
April 15th: La Revue of the Two Worlds publishes finally the article of Gobineau on Capo of Istria. It made the lawsuit of a philhellenism denied there which claims to see in the modern Greeks the heirs and the descendants of the ancient Greeks. Article not deprived of political clearness nor of generosity, where Gobineau sinks against Capo of Istria, regarded as the craftsman of the Russian policy in the East, and is used rather curiously thus the policy as Guizot.
April 17th: >Le success of the articl E of Gobineau of the Review of the Two Worlds makes him consider the future with espoir.
April 19th: Victor Hugo finishes the drafting of its Speech of reception in Académie.
April 29th: Died of Aloysius Bertrand.

May

Tuesday May 4th: Alexis de Tocqueville embarks with his/her Hippolyte brother and Gustave de Beaumont with Toulon, in order to accomplish the voyage in Algérie which it had projected for one year. In Algiers, Tocqueville is struck by the bourdonnante activity, the diversity of languages and people which reign in the ville.
May 5th: Law on the Expropriation due to public utility, essential legal instrument for the policy of town planning.
May 15th: Départ of Tocqueville of Algiers by sea in company of the general Bugeaud, who left to attack Tagdempt, capital of the emir d' Algérie Abd el-Kader. Tocqueville gains Mostaganem where it meets the general Lamoricière with whom it has been in relation for several years, thanks to the bonds of this officer with Louis de Kergorlay, comrade of promotion. Officer of the Arab offices, Lamoricière, engaged since 1830 in the majority of military operations in Algeria, made the effort know the pays.
May 18th: Bugeaud share in shift against the emir Abd el-Kader. `Tocqueville, whose health is staggering, cannot accompany it; it is for him a “bad cold-heart”. II share for Oran then Seas to elKébir, accompanied by Beaumont.
May 22nd: Tocqueville is of return to Algiers. A delay of the steamer which was to take it along to Bône gives him the opportunity to inquire into the state of the country near the civil civils servant and some Arabes.
May 24th: Gobineau will begin “a rather long work in prose”. “It would be the history of the Italian captains of XVIe century. I always raffolé of the condottieri. I already marked in my thought Piccinino, Strozzi, Sforza, Trivulzio, Jean de Médicis and especially the three times illustrates César de Valentinois if nowadays calumniated and as of his. ” * May 28th: Embarquement of Tocqueville for Philippeville. “A coast as I saw little in my life of it. This part of Algeria is infinitely more beautiful than the others”, writes it with his/her Edouard brother the May 30th.
May 31st:

Execution of Darmès, author of the assassination attempt of the October 15th 1840.
Tocqueville share with a convoy towards Constantine, but, reached dysentery, must give up inquiring into military operations of pacification.

June

Wednesday June 2nd: Law bringing of serious modifications to the code of civil procedure on the sale by order of the court of the real estate values.
June 3rd: Victor Hugo is received with the French Academy. Its Speech is resolutely political. Salvandy, in its answer, denies any political importance to him and quotes only its first works.
June 9th: Baudelaire embarks on the Steamer-of-Sea-of-South in direction of Calcutta.
June 11th: Alexis de Tocqueville is of return to Toulon.
June 13rd: Law of establishment of the railroad of Bordeaux to Tests it.
June 14th: Law which modifies the commercial law on the responsibility for the owners of tradind ships.
June 15th: In the Review of the Two Worlds , in connection with the Speech of Victor Hugo, Magnin speaks about a true “program of ministry”.
June 17th: Law of organization of the staff of the naval army.
June 24th: With the Academy, Charles Nodier is named director and Victor Hugo chancellor.
June 25th:

Law on the sale in detail of the goods to the biddings, where with public cry.
Law on the transmission of the offices regulating the form and the fees registration of the treaties.
Law authorizing an emission of revenues 3%, which rose with 12,810,245 francs of revenue and which produced 450,000,000 francs.

July

Saturday July 10th: Protocol of closure question of Agypet signed in London.
Tuesday July 13rd: Convention closing the straits (Dardanelles and the Bosphorus) with the warships other than Turks, except in the event of war.

NdE Rémusat T4 Reports, p 6: " Convention for the fence of the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, signed in London on July 13rd, 1841 enters England, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia and Turkey. The preamble referred to the old rule of the Ottoman Empire, according to which the passage of the Straits of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus must always be closed with the war buildings, as long as the Door is in peace; in article v the Door stated its inébranlable resolution to maintain this rule of the closing of the Straits, and the powers began to respect it. The Sultan reserved the right to authorize as in the past, the entry of the light buildings for the service of foreign legations; he would make known of Convention to all the governments with which he was in relation."

July 17th: Gobineau completed the biography of the Alviane and wrote for the Journal of DEBATEs an article on the question of Candie. It does not have any confidence in the committee legitimist: “That to make these people-there in a business where measurement would have to be brought so much, of prudence, address and firmness? ”
July 26th: The count de Chambord, claiming legitimist, is victim of a serious accident of horse, which leaves it slightly handicapped left leg.
July 30th: Answering the wishes of the National guard of Boulogne, Victor Hugo written for the inauguration of a statue of Napoleon in this city: Anthem for the inauguration of Napoleon (included in All the quadrant).

Turbid with Toulouse aiming at preventing the tax census ordered by the Minister for Finance, Humann in order to reform the plate of the Tax on the doors and windows. Others turbid take place during the summer with Bordeaux, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Céret, Lille (August), Clermont-Ferrand (September).

August

Monday August 16th: Inauguration of the statue of Napoleon i to Boulogne. Considered to be tendentious politically, the text of Victor Hugo will not be marked.

September

11 - September 18th: Disorders in Paris. The city is in prey with republican demonstrations: “The Republic Lives! In low Louis-Philippe! ” Agitation lasts several days.
September 13rd: The duke of Aumale, returning from Africa and ravelling at the head its troops, misses being assassinated of a blow of gun by Quénisset, an extremist.
September 25th - November 16th: Chateaubriand writes the conclusion of the Mémoires of in addition to-fall .

has Vienna the count de Flahaut replaces as ambassador the count of Holy-Aulaire named with London.

October

Saturday October 2nd: Balzac sign with Smokes, Hetzel, Paulin and Dubochet a contract for its “complete works”, to appear under the general title: the human Comedy .

November

Saturday November 6th: Victor Hugo gains the lawsuit which opposed it to Donizetti. This one will have to take another booklet and to modify the title of the opera ( Lucrèce Borgia ).
November 11th: The count de Pahlen, ambassador of Russia, leave France not to have to present the wishes of the diplomatic corps to Louis-Philippe Ier (that Nicolas II of Russia challenges more or less dully as king, it would have owed, according to him, being the regent of the duke of Bordeaux). Beginning of a diplomatic estrangement several years with the Russia. It is Casimir Périer, wire, which is person in charge and Ernest de Barante (wire of Prosper?) who is ambassador in title.

December

Saturday December 11th: Le court of Évreux condemns Mrs. Louis de Gobineau to six years of reclusion, hundred francs of fine and exposure publique.
December 20th: L' catholic Union publishes an article of Gobineau, “ Greece since 1833 ”, whose continuation will appear in the same newspaper the 20,26- December 27th, 1841 and January 17th, 1842.
December 23rd: Alexis de Tocqueville is elected with the French Academy to replace Jean-Girard Lacuée de Cessac, which was minister, of 1810 with 1813, of the administration of the war under the Empire.
December 27th: Opening of the parliamentary session of 1842.
Tuesday December 28th: With the Room, Sauzet is re-elected president by 193 votes against 64 with Lamartine.

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