Word: reposoir
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Hill of the Highnesses. Leopold and Mary Liliane are waiting, too. Four years ago, after a nonstop drive from Austria, they arrived at Le Reposoir, a greystone mansion near Geneva, Switzerland. (The upkeep is $7,500 a year rent, plus wages for six servants, two secretaries.) They dream of a return to Brussels, and Le Reposoir lends itself to such dreams. Built in the 18th Century, it is nicknamed le coteau des altesses-the hill of the highnesses. Among others who have lived there and dreamed of lost diadems were Louis Bonaparte's Queen Hortense and Napoleon...
...villa, Le Reposoir, in Switzerland's Pregny, King Leopold listened to the radio news on the election, broke the tension once to go swimming with Mary Liliane. He wanted to come back, but was enough of a Belgian himself not to hurry...
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