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This page relates to the year 1842 of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Thursday January 6th: The ambassador in Spain Salvandy leaves this one after the protocolar business of the presentation of the letters of accreditation. He advises with Guizot to consider the war.
January 28th: Publication of original of the the Rhine of Hugo.

Monday February 7th: The bill on the railroads is presented to the Room. The discussion opens the April 26th, on the report/ratio of Dufaure and lasts fifteen days. The amendment of Thiers, which substitutes a single line (Belgian border with Marseilles) for the network of nine lines (six proposed by the project, and three added by the commission) is rejected by 255 votes against 152. The unit is adopted by 255 votes against 83. As opposed to what known as Rémusat, Duchâtel plays a big role in the debate. Circumstances, with the remainder (made experiment of the impotence of the concessionary companies; too heavy financial expenses of the State pulled by the crisis of 1840) impose a mixed solution between the overriding principles of the government enterprise and the private company. - It is curious that Rémusat which had taken such an amount of place in the discussions of 1837 and 1838, does not intervene in the question in 1842.

February 15th: At the time of a debate on the electoral reform, Lamartine makes a famous speech comparing the monarchy from July on a terminal: “One would say, to hear them, who the genius of the politicians consists only of only one thing, to be posed there on a position that the chance or the revolution their made, and to remain motionless, inert there, relentless if it were there, indeed, all genius of the statesman charged to direct a government, but there would not need statesmen, a terminal would be enough there. ”

February 17th: The chancellor Pasquier is elected with the French Academy against Alfred de Vigny. Pierre-Simon Ballanche is elected with another armchair.

Night of the 9 to the March 10th: The arrow of the church of Conches in the the Eure collapses at the time of a storm.
March 23rd: Struck apoplexy the day before in the street, Henri Beyle dies.

Thursday April 21st: At the time of its reception to the French Academy, Tocqueville, pronouncing the praise of its predecessor, finds the occasion of a historical reflection on the Empire.
April 25th: Died of Georges Humann in his office with the ministry for finances.
April 26th: Arrived of the rear-admiral Dupetit-Thouars who takes possession of the Marquises then will impose French protectorate on Tahiti.

Sunday the 1st er May: Occupation of the archipelago of the Marquesas Islands by the rear-admiral Dupetit-Thouars.
May 4th: With the French Academy, Henri Patin is elected by 21 vote against 9 with Alfred de Vigny and 3 with Holy-Beuve.
May 8th: First railway catastrophe in France, on the line of Versailles - Left bank, with height of Meudon: fifty-seven dead of which Dumont d' Urville, more than three hundred wounded.

Law governing the financing of the railroads. It establishes the general network of our railroads, ordered that the expenditure of work which was to remain with the load of the State would be temporarily supported by the floating debt. At December 31st, 1847, the advances amounted to 441,000,000 FR. the law decides the construction of a radiant network around Paris; the State carries out the infrastructure and takes responsibility for its 1/3 expenses, the two other thirds being with the load of the served departments and communes; the exploitation of the lines is conceded at private companies which bring the rails and rolling stock.
Cette law, known as Guizot (Memories T VIII p 626): " precisely called their charter; the other (of July 15th, 1845) which regulated the police force of the railroads and thus founded the permanent mode of this large and new communication system. This last law, presented and supported by Mr. Dumon, then public Minister for Labor, did not cease being in force. At December 31st, 1847, there were 2,059 kilometers of railroads in full exploitation, and 2,144 kilometers of, railroads in construction."
Laws on the prolongation of the railroad of Paris to Rouen until the Harbor.

June 13rd: Dissolution of the House of Commons. The elections are fixed at the July 9th.
June 18th: Gobineau binds with the German professor Adelbert von Keller and begins with him a correspondence which will last until its death.
June 19th: DEBATEs begin the publication of the Mystères of Paris of Eugene Sue.
June 28th: With the Academy, Victor Hugo is elected director; Ballanche, chancellor.

9 - July 11th: The legislative elections are a relative success for Louis-Philippe and the government of Guizot: the ministry obtains 236 seats out of 459. The opposition is divided into legitimists (26 seats), center left (180) and radical republicans (18). In Paris, the opposition gains ten of the twelve seats.

Alexis de Tocqueville is re-elected appointed of Valognes by 465 votes against 177 with Marois.

July 13rd: Died of the duke of Orleans, heir to the crown, in an car accident carries Maillot. Its horses packed, it broke cranium while jumping to bottom of the car.
July 14th: Creation by the prefect of the the Seine of a Commission of the Markets “to seek the means of putting the markets of provisioning in connection with the needs for the population”.
July 16th: First treaty on the tariff enters the France and the Belgium (vaster treaty the December 13rd 1845)
July 21st: Victor Hugo writes and reads an Address with the king, being director of the Academy, at the time of the death of the duke of Orleans.
July 26th: Meeting of the Rooms in extraordinary session after the elections.
July 30th: Transfer of the skin of the duke of Orleans of the vault of Neuilly to Notre-Dame.

August 30th: Law on the regency of the kingdom. It draws aside the duchess of Orleans of regency.

Friday September 9th: Strongly incited by Dupetit-Thouars, the queen of Tahiti Pomaré IV request the protection of France. Treaty of protectorate.
September 10th: Victor Hugo begins the drafting of the text of the Burgraves.

Wednesday November 23rd: Victor Hugo reads Burgraves with the Th3e4atre Fran1cais. The part is received by 13 vote against 1.
November 27th: Tocqueville is elected general adviser by the joined together cantons of Montebourg and Holy-Mother-Church.

At the end of November, at the beginning of December: Alexis de Tocqueville recruits the young person Arthur de Gobineau, whom it charges with gathering a documentation intended for the development of a report/ratio on progress of the morals of which itself was charged by the Academy of Science morals and political. The ordinance of the March 22nd 1840 prescribed with this Academy to prepare a “general Table of the state and advances in knowledge morals and policies since 1789”. The two men will exchange in 1843-1844 an abundant philosophical correspondence around this question.

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