This event competed for public attention with the more salacious Fualdes affair, a lengthy publicinquiry of who murdered a landowner.
This event competed for public attention with the more salacious Fualdes affair, a lengthy publicinquiry of who murdered a landowner. Following this event, Minister of Police Elie Decazes sent tenthousand francs every month to the Times of London as a bribe to keep reporting on this story. Abestselling contemporary book about this event was written by the two men who refused to sign areport absolving Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys of responsibility. During this event, sixty peoplewere killed in a brawl that emerged when most of the people involved got drunk due to wine beingthe only (*) available liquid. This event began aboard a flagship leading an expedition to installJulien-DÃ©sirÃ© Schmaltz as governor of Senegal, and it became a national scandal after the officers took allthe provisions onto lifeboats and left the remaining 146 men to drift aimlessly. The first, unsuccessfulattempt to contact the Argus during this event is depicted in a painting of this July 1816 event. For 10points, name this scandal which exposed incompetent leadership in the French navy and inspired a paintingby Theodore Gericault.
This event competed for public attention with the more salacious Fualdes affair, a lengthy publicinquiry of who murdered a landowner.
the Medusa scandal [or The Raft of the Medusa or the Medusa shipwreck, etc.]