A NEW PARIS MANIA.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 10 January 1866, Page 3

A NEW PARIS MANIA.

Dubroni mania is the latest novelty in Paris. Dubroni is the name of a young and most promising engineer, a pupil of the Ecole Polytechnique. Laid up for several years with bad health, his mind remained as active as ever. Amidst the most intense bodily sufferings he applied himself night and day, to the study and perfection of photography, hoping to initiate the masses into its mysteries by simplifying the manipulations and turning photography into a drawing-room amusement within the reach of every purse. In this, Dubroni appears to have been quite successful, inasmuch as his ingenious apparatus entirely does away with necessity of an operating chamber. You have no longer to dread any stains or spots on your dress or hands, as the chemical operations are all accomplished with the pipette, a small instrument by means of which you can introduce into the camera obscura, through a little orifice, the different chemical baths which the plate must undergo previous to its bearing a picture. Dubroni, after having pursued his experiments with unabated ardour, is certainly entitled to the honour of attaching his name to the science of photography. Another distinguishing feature of his lilliputian apparatus is the readiness with which it can be set up for use and repacked in a box whicn does not exceed hi size a lady's writing desk. Among the notabilities who are amusing themselves during their summer vacations with the appareil Dubroni are the wellknown diplomatists Marquis De La Yalette and M. De Persigny, and no less a personage than Prince Napoleon himself.