THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK’S HOUSE.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 158, 7 December 1874, Page 3

THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK’S HOUSE.

The Paris house of the mad Duke of Brunswick, in the Avenue Friedlaud, is now in course of demolition. It was a most extraordinary residence, as anyone found who endeavored to enter. At the front gate was a metal button, and a visitor would have to press this. It instantly set a number of bells ringing in violent commotion. Admitted into the garden, you still found yourself excluded from the house. Another button had to bo touched, and, that done, you find yourself in an unfurnished ball. There was no staircase communicating with the upper rooms where the duke slept. More buttons had to bo pressed, and at last you found yourself sitting in an arm-chair, and raised by a hydraulic lift apparently to the living rooms which the duke used to occupy. The walls of the bedroom were armour-clad. ,By an ingenious mechanism a panel in the wall was removed and entrance gained. The strong-box nearly killed the workmen who endeavoured to open it, for it scut off a sudden and mitrailleuselike discharge. The Due de Treviso bought the house, and stipulated that all treasure found in it shall belong to him. Nothing has been found thus far, but the purchaser has not given up hope, for, after the mad duke had some of bis diamonds stolen, he slowed away his valuables in all kinds of stiauge places,