Word: mon
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What set Rainier and De Gaulle at odds was Monaco's long standing as a tax haven, a situation that dates from 1816, when the reigning prince sold off some acreage and put the proceeds in a fund to cover government expenses and relieve Monégasques forevermore of the need to pay taxes. France saw nothing wrong with this until thousands of French corporations and individuals began setting up domiciles in Monaco to dodge French taxes...
...Paris sent customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame," complained one Monégasque businessman, "but we have our wall of ridicule...
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