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nected with the outer world Talleyran
by railroad she used to and
travel by coach with six Anna Cou
gaily caparisoned horses and to Whom
outriderS, and whenever she Duke
passed through village the Transferre
schools were closed TO per- His Germ.
init the children TO admire Title and
the unusual spectacle. The E.tate. WI
citizens of Sagan put up with tbe Carn,.
her whims and bowed to her, Thra.tan ,
not only because she was r,nG..,..
duchess, but because the
ducal household brought
much money into the town.
When the Duchess Dorothea died in 1862, her
son, already Duke OF Valencay, Tallcyrand and
Pcrigord became also Duke of Sagan Although
Frenchman by birth and education he took
up his residence at Sagan, and embellished the
park by the construction OF magnificent foun.
tans, after the style Of Versailles. The burghers
of Sagan were happy because they expected
that the new Duke would spend all his money
in the town. The Franco German war dispelled
this hope. The Duke returned to Paris where
he spent all the revenue from his German pos.
sessions and much His son and heir
the modern Alcibiades," followed him, and then
came the present Duke. the husband of Anna
Gould.
The castle Of Sagan is a vast structure in the
Italian Renaissance style with courtyard be-
tween two wings fronting on a terrace under
which large orangery extends. 1t contains
more than hundred rooms most of them richly
furnished in modern taste by the Dukes grand
rather Some of the rooms OF historical in.
terest, having been left in the condition in
which they were used by former propretors
among them the Loebko witz room and the Wal.
lenstein room
A large picture gallery contains many valuable
paintings. t)nc room Is used as a museum, where
many objects Of local interest are preserved
together with large collections OF butterflies
stuffed animals and minerals. The park is laid
out In the English style, and in front of the
castle is garden where thousands upon thou.
sands of rose trees of all kinds are planted
Not far from the entrance is smaller build.
ing, almost castle in itself, called the Cavalier
House, now the residence of the manager of
the estate. 1t has rooms for guests who cannot
DE placed In the palace proper. Several square
miles OF forest surround the park on three
sides. Game abounds there-pheasants deer
and hares. Here is also one of the few spots
capercailZie All the Kings Of Prussia in the last
century have shot over these preserves.
Inc city OF Sagan is on the Bober a river
hardly more than good sized creek in the
Summer, but turbulent and often dangerous
stream in the Spring. The town has about
10000 inhabitants and consists, like most of the
smaller German cities, Of two sections, entirely
different from each other. The older city has
preserved much Of the architecture of the mid.
die ages, the narrow houses with high gables
and the market place. surrounded by arcadcs
The newer quarter is entirely modern and pretty
There are manufactures of cloth, linen and
cotton.
The entire duchy of Sagan covers a territory
OF 1211 square kilometres, 507 square miles, and
has population Of $4,000.
The property is said to yield an income of
nearly 100000 marks per nnnum, which is
enormous for Germany, being one-sixteerth part
Of the KaiSerS own.