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Article: Beckoned by Beguiling Monaco // A Sense of Grace Still Pervades Principality
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 3, 1996
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MONTE CARLO, MONACO Slathered in seaweed, wrapped in plastic and left
to simmer on a heated bed, I have time to ponder the fact that I am
not in your typical tourist town.
I am in Monaco, that tiny, sparkling, stage-set of a country in
which a day passed in the pursuit of kelp and seawater treatments at
the spa - followed by champagne, foie gras and a roulette riff - is
business as usual.
It only takes one long look at this lilliputian principality
where the French Alps meet the absurdly azure Mediterranean Sea to
see why American actress Grace Kelly fell hard in the mid-'50s for
the guy who owned the place. Though the film star who became a
princess has been gone 14 years (and her ...