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258.: FRENCH NEWS [99] EXAMINER, 22 JUNE, 1834, P. 393 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II

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258.: FRENCH NEWS [99] EXAMINER, 22 JUNE, 1834, P. 393 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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FRENCH NEWS [99]

EXAMINER, 22 JUNE, 1834, P. 393

This item is headed “London, June 22, 1834.” For Mill’s bibliographic entry, see No. 257. In Mill’s copy of the Examiner in Somerville College, it is listed as “Article on France.”

we have observed with great regret the announcement of the accidental death, by the oversetting of a boat at Rouen, of M. Conseil, one of the editors of the National de 1834.¹ France knows not the extent of the loss she has sustained by the premature death, at an early age, of one of her most valuable citizens. M. Conseil was one of the most instructed and clear-headed men in France, one who combined the attainments and high qualities of an Englishman and a Frenchman; and no man was more earnestly devoted to the good of his country and the cause of human improvement.

The same unfortunate accident had nearly been fatal to the only other man in France, perhaps, whose loss would have been a still greater calamity—M. Armand Carrel.

A profligate jury has, in contradiction to the strongest evidence, condemned Messrs. Gervais and Guillemot for publishing the details of some of the horrible outrages perpetrated upon defenceless prisoners by the Citizen-King’s Police; but the publicity of the proceedings has answered the purpose of a complete exposure.²

[1 ]Conseil died on 16 June (Moniteur, 1834, p. 1443).

[2 ]Gervais had written a letter on 20 Apr. for the Messager des Chambres, first printed in full in the National de 1834, 23 Apr., p. 3, for which he and Hercule Gilbert Marie Guillemot, the managing editor of the Messager, were tried before the Cour d’Assises de la Seine on 10 May, and found guilty (National de 1834, 11 May, p. 4). The news seems not to have reached Mill that, on appeal, while Gervais was condemned to two months’ imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs, Guillemot was acquitted (ibid., 11 June, pp. 2-4, 12 June, pp. 3-4, 13 June, pp. 2-4; Moniteur, 1834, p. 1426).