ANDORRA: Viva La Roulette!

Came disquieting news last week from the quaint and anomalous neutral principality, republic and bishopate of Andorra.

The prince of Andorra is the President of France, who claims that title as the successor of its original holder, French King Henry IV. The Republican government is administered by a locally elected "Council of 24." The Spanish Bishop of the See of Durgel is by medieval right a "Suzerain of Andorra."

The disquieting news of last week was that a French company with $4,500,000 capitalization has acquired the right to make Andorra a second "Monte...

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