The Osceola times., 1880-08-28
DECAYED NOBILITY
The Rotten House of brunswick End. 4,
the French Hulks.

The Rotten House of brunswick End.
the French Hulks
Paris Correspondence Of the New YorL W.,
The origin of the great houses il H.,
in obscurity, and the end of them Gu, n'
ly, but it is always interesting wben ua'- %
can trace them either to their or;,' Oi'e
in their decline. A case which has i,'oi VI
been tried in the law courts in FraJpt Just
helps us to this in the case of ono ,,raos aoe
European house, that of the DuLa az
Brunswick. Il is not so much of a do.
cine as rottlng out. 1t ends in tba
huiKs. IL ends, 1t is true, only in tbe
person of an illegitimate representat;ro
of the roval Duke, but we must tato
what we Il Id. The other day Uric En- En-
gene Fuclfe de Collin de Bar, Vicomto
de Civry, appeared before a French inv
on charge of robbery and general
swindling. He had been arrested im
England on an extradition warrant and
before he went TO England he had nn;'
etly relieved the landlady of the mr-
nlshed apartment which he occunied l.,
Paris of considerable quantity of bor
property. He had hired the apartmant
Tor considerable sum in the fasbionab1o
quarter, and he no sooner obtained ~
session OF it than he broke omen Tho
drawers containing the private effects NJ
the proprietress anG made off with them
Ills confederates in this transaction were
his own valet and stewart and other
"ofiicers OF his household" The moor
landlady had no suspicion of her lodper
for he bore a noble French name and
was of princely origin. Hismothcr was
the daughter of the Duke of BrunswicL
His father was a French gentleman oi
extremely good descent. The poor lad
was born into every species of ELEGANT
corruption, If that adjective can ever be
applied to that noun. His grandfather
lived the life that every one in Paris
knows, went about painted up to the
eyebrows, and wearing curled perr,.g,e
while his morals were even more artif.
cially nasty than his manner of dressing
lie installed several temporary fayorites
in his household at short intervals of
succession, and the mother of Uric de
Civry was one of them. She yas
brought up in kind Of splendid Bohe-
mia. Her father took little notice of
her, being entirely engrossed with his
notice Of himself, and he made very
slender provision for her education and
training. She therefore had but little
OF tins description t. transmit TO her
son. In worldly goods she was almost
as badly off, for the old:Duke kept a
tight hold on his purse strings. She OBJ
tanned very little money from him.
though he rolled in millions; yet at the
same time, though living in his house.
she was always within sight of the great.
est luxuries that money could purchase.
Her lips, as it were, touched river of
liquid gold, but she was still athirst.
She formed mos. costly and extrayacant
tastes. and had nothing to crafty them
with. Her son was in this respect a true
child OF his mother, and in others the
true grandson of the illustrious Duke, So
that he was thoroughly well equipped
with bad qualities on both sides. and not
a single vice was wanting for his compo-
sition. He could not work, to beg he
was ashamed, but he was not ashamed
to steal. and no lived pretty comfortably
for time in Paris on his wits and his
name. His grandfather was known To
be SO rich that nobody hesitated TO trust
the young fellow, and even when the
grandfather died and left all his money
away from the family to the City of Gre.
neva, there was still hone Of recover
ing it by a lawsuit. In the meantime
Uric de Ciyry went on cheating IN the
hope that something would turn uD in
the shape of a favorable decision in his
mothers suit for the recovery of the
property. He might probably after that
have turned an honest man. That was
no doubt his intention, but unfortunate
ly before he turned honest he had to get
his grandiather's money, and before ho
could get his grandfather's money, he
ran short of ready cash, and was Obliged
to clear out the clothes presses of hi
landlady, as before stated. There was Il
hue and a cry after him, and he ran
away TO England. In England he was
not idle. He was a handsome fellow, as
may be inferred from this description Of
him as he stood in the dock the other dav
"Twenty-sevcn years old, elegantly
dressed, dark blue eyes, bright red lips.
white teeth, elegantly-curled mustache"
in fact, a perfect dead-shot in the war.
fare of drawing-room and ball. With
these advantages he could work as well
in England as in Paris. and he found
means to commend himself 10 the favor
of lady of the British aristocracy, and
was living very comfortably on the
pocketmoney which she gave him
when the police quietly took him by
the collar. Some sort of defense had to
be made for him as he stood in the
French dock, but il was little to the pur-
pose. The whole case was proven TO
the hilt. He had become the accom-
plice OF his very servants in the
most scandalous kind of robbcries, and
robberies were the least disgraceful
things in his career lie denied them
to the last, though he incidentally ad.
mitted other weaknesses which would
have been quite sufficient TO hang him
in a country where lynching-law pre-
vailed. The Judges sent him to prison
for three ycars-and thus ends the story
IF n noble life