Arizona republican., 1912-12-05
How Monte Carlo Started

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 Francois Blanc an ex-convict from homhurg. bought the prncipality of Monaco, boots and bag gage. The genius of gambling had claimed many an individual, many a noble and his estate and not infrequently entire city but it had never before undertaken such conquest as this
 Francois Blanc is Of the most remarkable soldiers Of his early history little known. He seized by the authorities Of Homhurg having made fraudulent of the telegraph in relation to stock exchange news re- celved from Paris. His method was one of the very oldest-namely, the corruption of the employees. It seems that at this time the German law did not precisely cover this species Of swindling with which he charged and he and his twin brother es- capped with q sentence of seven months,
 It not d sentence and Francois Blanc not discouraged. He had accumulated a hundred thousand francs, and with that sum he established the Kursaal a Homburg. The Kursaal nourshcd and Blanc might have gone on there to the realiza- tion his ambition but for the national sentiment he shrewd enough to foresee. Blanc realized that the time distant when the German people would put down the of gambling in which he engaged Early, then, when the cloud larger than mans hand. he began to look his temple of fortune.
 On the Mediterranean between the kingdoms France and Italy, there little in dependent principality. It was not more than two miles ard d quarter long and hardly three quarters mile wide: but it independent kingdom, with old and royal house.
 Charles III the reigning prince but he a tattered monarch and his d beggarly believe In his desperate situation it is said he applied q shreHd Parisian counsel, who advised him set up gaming tables and thereby other peoples subjects, since already have ruined your own"
 Charles III followed that pregnant advice He sold d gambling concession in the principaity to two adventurers Duval and Lefevre These men built the Casino. but their venture was not particularly successful. They asserted that Charles avaricc could be satisfied; and when Francois Blanc rived the Mediterranean. around 1860, Duval and Iefcvre could be "approached' as the modern term is Blanc bought the concession and moved his gambling establishment from the Kursaal at Hom- burg the principality of Monaco
 Francois Blanc bold and daring adventurer. The little prncipality divided practically into three towns-MonacO, Condamine and Monte Carlo. It the last that Francois Blanc occupied. He employed the best architect be had, built great Casino laid out beautiful gardens and terraces and expended three million dollars the mere prospect of making Monte Carlo the gambling head quarters of Europe
 Francois Blanc the ex-convict from Homburg was ordinary Lord Brougham said that Blanc the greatest financier of his time. At any his great financial adventure justified itself Blanc to live in splendOr. He married his daughters to princes; he accumulated fortune of 25o,oOOooo francs, and he left behind him establishment that nets at least five million dollars year in profits
 More than this, Francois Blanc bought and paid for the principality Of Monaco. He paid Charles III 500,000 francs a year and all his expenses with q percentage the profits; he kept up a and gardens for the princpalty he paid the police magistrates and all fixed charges of the Kingdom. Moreover when the merchants of Nice endeavored to persuade the French senate resist gambling at Monte Carlo, and when the subjects of the prin- cipality threatened to revolt Blanc, daring and full of resources had Charles issue edct abolishing all taxes in the principalty: and out of his concesson in addition what he had already paid Blanc paid all the taxes of Monaco
 When Albert Honore Charles, the present Prince of Monaco, to the throne he remained under the thumb of the famille Blanc; and the cesson they had obtained renewed for a period of fifty upon the payment of 10,000,000 francs down, 15,O0OO00 to be paid in 1914, and other vast sums, together with practically all charges of the principality. All this company called La SOciete des Bains de Mer de Monte Carlo.
 And the genius gambling king and his court, a monarch of the oldest reigning houses of EurOpe-a palace, an ramy a prncipality with it's subjects, and bishop a cathedral to boot
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