THE DIAMONDS OF FRANCE.
France has lost her -aSonVchs, but keeps sourenirs of them. These treasures will figure at the exposition ; they r. -Ibe exhibited in the first hall of the fine arts, near the military school. A vault four meters deep and three and a half rasters square is now being built in this hall, meant to be a place of safety for the CiWa di amonds during the night. This treasury, dug in the earth, will be entirely isolated from .all. other buildings, its side* and bottom will be brilt up with thick coats of cement, and there will besides be a double iron bottom which can be flooded with. water. The case in which the jewels, are to be displayed will be an artistic marvel. Every evening when the exposition has closed, the case, by means of a clock-work mechanism, will descend into the vault, and the orifice will be closed with iron plates on which the guardians will arrange their camp-beds and sleep there.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 15 July 1878, Page 2
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168THE DIAMONDS OF FRANCE. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 15 July 1878, Page 2
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