In the same room where Errol Flynn was married to one of his three wives eight years ago. a mayor of Monte Carlo was last week about to perform another, humbler, wedding. Suddenly a liveried bailiff burst in, crying: "Monsieur Boisson! You're not mayor any more!"
Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National Council and the Municipal Council. The 3,000...
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