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RAINIER III: (1923-2005) Sovereign Prince of Monaco 1949-2005.
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RAINIER III: (1923-2005) Sovereign Prince of Monaco 1949-2005. An excellent, lengthy T.L.S., Rainier, Prince de Monaco, with holograph salutation and subscription of eleven lines, ten pages (separate leaves), 4to, Palais de Monaco, 20th November 1968, to Marcel Palmaro (´Mon Cher Marcel´), President Delegate of the Board of Directors of the Société des Bains de Mer (S.B.M.), in French. The Prince commences his letter stating ´The problem of the S.B.M. is close to my heart, as you know, it bothers me and concerns me, as I'm sure you can imagine. I therefore believe it useful and even essential to put in writing all my thoughts, observations and criticisms of the current operation and management of the S.B.M., in the hope that you will benefit from them. I was struck by the tone of your letter of 25 October, because although I am writing to you personally to share with you certain facts that may concern me in terms of the best operation of the Société, it is certainly not the automatic transcription of gossip that I am going to echo to you! I therefore find it difficult to accept the wording of the first paragraph of your letter of 25 October, the terms of which, you will agree, are addressed more to one of your employees than to the Sovereign Prince!! I will attribute this wording to your understandable exasperation at the repeated reports of the boycott of service by the staff of the Société's hotels and restaurants´, further remarking ´Si vous arrivez à lancer rapidemet ces deux poles de collaboration, votre fonction será alors comparable à un chef d´orchestre qui donne le ton et les moyens d´exécution et de réalisation, ce qui serait le moyen le plus harmonieux et le plus valable pour redonner à Monte-Carlo l´attrait qui´il semble perdre de plus chaque année´ (Translation: ´If you manage to quickly launch these two centres of collaboration, your role will be comparable to that of a conductor who sets the tone and the means of execution and realisation, which would be the most harmonious and most valid way to restore to Monte-Carlo the appeal that it seems to be losing more and more each year´) and continuing to discuss various aspects of Monte Carlo under nine individual titles, in part, ´The attached long memo will give you my thoughts and express my wishes and hopes in various areas. This document can and should be useful to you, I have written it with this in mind and I think that there will be no doubt in your mind. Before ending this letter, I will answer some of the questions in your letter: Monte-Carlo Beach – It is necessary to transform this complex into a club, and I believe that the best formula would be to create this complex, which I have been talking about for so long, grouping the tennis and the beach, all of which could be called ‘Monte-Carlo Country Club’, following the American formula which is already successful in all the cities of America…….De Galea Collection – I am not absolutely set on the location of this collection on the ground floor of the new Government offices; it was a possibility. There is a tourist circuit that you know, which the coaches and tourists do not deviate from, which is why I thought that placing this collection on the Rock would increase the number of tourists visiting it. Installing it in Monte-Carlo is not a bad idea, provided that it has no association with the games or activities of the Casino. For my part, I do not think that this collection can find its place in the former winter sporting club before the game leaves this establishment to move to the new summer-winter sporting club on the Larvotto esplanade…….Development of the Larvotto Esplanade - In the report I received of the meeting of the Cooperation Commission on 4 November, I see that there is talk of calling the Sporting Club du Larvotto the ‘Summer and Winter Palace’. I don't like this name at all, and I would like you to remove it immediately from all projects, plans, etc. There is only one palace in the Principality, and that is the Prince's palace on the Rock. There has already been some confusion with the ‘Palais du Gouvernement’, the residence of the Minister of State, which I am still trying to get them to call the ‘Ministry of State’!.......On this open space, around the new sporting club and the hotel, a park could be created in which luxury bungalows would be built, to be rented or sold, and a few buildings of 4 to 6 storeys maximum, with one apartment per floor, for high-standing and important clients of the company........Residential District – I believe this is very important, because little by little the Principality is losing the residential districts it had before, made up of villas in green areas; this formula must be recreated.........Hotel project on the Sea Club site - You know the increasingly urgent need for Monte-Carlo to increase its hotel potential if we want to make a useful contribution to tourism throughout the year... You know very well that I don't have a particular liking for the Holiday Inn chain and that if I welcomed their project with a certain enthusiasm, it was because it was one of the first and only hotel chains that really intended to finance, build and operate a new hotel in the Principality……..I think I am right in saying that the ‘bricks and mortar’ investment, particularly in hotel construction, is an excellent investment for the Principality, because at least this one will last!.......Personally, I think it is quite normal that for a large, new, quality hotel that is being built, the S.B.M. allows, in a form that suits it best, games to be operated within the hotel grounds; I do not believe that this could be detrimental to the Casino, on the contrary, it will stimulate the revival of gambling among a wider clientele´ and in concluding adds ´I myself have received criticism from friends and acquaintances regarding the decline in the quality of service in the rooms and restaurants, and even the decline in the quality of the food. I have noticed this decline myself on several occasions during lunches or dinners in the catering establishments of the S.B.M. So there is some truth to it, it is not just a ’ cabal’, and I believe that vigilance is absolutely necessary, and that if the starting point of this decline in service comes from a certain “boycott” of the staff, exemplary sanctions should be given without hesitation in order to put a stop to a petty policy that risks spreading and thus harming the community, which is and must be my constant concern as well as yours´). A letter of interesting, and at times forthright, content. A few very light, extremely minor stains to the foot of the first page, and with small staple holes to the upper left corner of each page, VGOWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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RAINIER III: (1923-2005) Sovereign Prince of Monaco 1949-2005. An excellent, lengthy T.L.S., Rainier, Prince de Monaco, with holograph salutation and subscription of eleven lines, ten pages (separate leaves), 4to, Palais de Monaco, 20th November 1968, to Marcel Palmaro (´Mon Cher Marcel´), President Delegate of the Board of Directors of the Société des Bains de Mer (S.B.M.), in French. The Prince commences his letter stating ´The problem of the S.B.M. is close to my heart, as you know, it bothers me and concerns me, as I'm sure you can imagine. I therefore believe it useful and even essential to put in writing all my thoughts, observations and criticisms of the current operation and management of the S.B.M., in the hope that you will benefit from them. I was struck by the tone of your letter of 25 October, because although I am writing to you personally to share with you certain facts that may concern me in terms of the best operation of the Société, it is certainly not the automatic transcription of gossip that I am going to echo to you! I therefore find it difficult to accept the wording of the first paragraph of your letter of 25 October, the terms of which, you will agree, are addressed more to one of your employees than to the Sovereign Prince!! I will attribute this wording to your understandable exasperation at the repeated reports of the boycott of service by the staff of the Société's hotels and restaurants´, further remarking ´Si vous arrivez à lancer rapidemet ces deux poles de collaboration, votre fonction será alors comparable à un chef d´orchestre qui donne le ton et les moyens d´exécution et de réalisation, ce qui serait le moyen le plus harmonieux et le plus valable pour redonner à Monte-Carlo l´attrait qui´il semble perdre de plus chaque année´ (Translation: ´If you manage to quickly launch these two centres of collaboration, your role will be comparable to that of a conductor who sets the tone and the means of execution and realisation, which would be the most harmonious and most valid way to restore to Monte-Carlo the appeal that it seems to be losing more and more each year´) and continuing to discuss various aspects of Monte Carlo under nine individual titles, in part, ´The attached long memo will give you my thoughts and express my wishes and hopes in various areas. This document can and should be useful to you, I have written it with this in mind and I think that there will be no doubt in your mind. Before ending this letter, I will answer some of the questions in your letter: Monte-Carlo Beach – It is necessary to transform this complex into a club, and I believe that the best formula would be to create this complex, which I have been talking about for so long, grouping the tennis and the beach, all of which could be called ‘Monte-Carlo Country Club’, following the American formula which is already successful in all the cities of America…….De Galea Collection – I am not absolutely set on the location of this collection on the ground floor of the new Government offices; it was a possibility. There is a tourist circuit that you know, which the coaches and tourists do not deviate from, which is why I thought that placing this collection on the Rock would increase the number of tourists visiting it. Installing it in Monte-Carlo is not a bad idea, provided that it has no association with the games or activities of the Casino. For my part, I do not think that this collection can find its place in the former winter sporting club before the game leaves this establishment to move to the new summer-winter sporting club on the Larvotto esplanade…….Development of the Larvotto Esplanade - In the report I received of the meeting of the Cooperation Commission on 4 November, I see that there is talk of calling the Sporting Club du Larvotto the ‘Summer and Winter Palace’. I don't like this name at all, and I would like you to remove it immediately from all projects, plans, etc. There is only one palace in the Principality, and that is the Prince's palace on the Rock. There has already been some confusion with the ‘Palais du Gouvernement’, the residence of the Minister of State, which I am still trying to get them to call the ‘Ministry of State’!.......On this open space, around the new sporting club and the hotel, a park could be created in which luxury bungalows would be built, to be rented or sold, and a few buildings of 4 to 6 storeys maximum, with one apartment per floor, for high-standing and important clients of the company........Residential District – I believe this is very important, because little by little the Principality is losing the residential districts it had before, made up of villas in green areas; this formula must be recreated.........Hotel project on the Sea Club site - You know the increasingly urgent need for Monte-Carlo to increase its hotel potential if we want to make a useful contribution to tourism throughout the year... You know very well that I don't have a particular liking for the Holiday Inn chain and that if I welcomed their project with a certain enthusiasm, it was because it was one of the first and only hotel chains that really intended to finance, build and operate a new hotel in the Principality……..I think I am right in saying that the ‘bricks and mortar’ investment, particularly in hotel construction, is an excellent investment for the Principality, because at least this one will last!.......Personally, I think it is quite normal that for a large, new, quality hotel that is being built, the S.B.M. allows, in a form that suits it best, games to be operated within the hotel grounds; I do not believe that this could be detrimental to the Casino, on the contrary, it will stimulate the revival of gambling among a wider clientele´ and in concluding adds ´I myself have received criticism from friends and acquaintances regarding the decline in the quality of service in the rooms and restaurants, and even the decline in the quality of the food. I have noticed this decline myself on several occasions during lunches or dinners in the catering establishments of the S.B.M. So there is some truth to it, it is not just a ’ cabal’, and I believe that vigilance is absolutely necessary, and that if the starting point of this decline in service comes from a certain “boycott” of the staff, exemplary sanctions should be given without hesitation in order to put a stop to a petty policy that risks spreading and thus harming the community, which is and must be my constant concern as well as yours´). A letter of interesting, and at times forthright, content. A few very light, extremely minor stains to the foot of the first page, and with small staple holes to the upper left corner of each page, VGOWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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