Duvalier Moves On to Riviera, Gets Another Chilly Greeting

Deposed Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier, ordered out of his plush Alpine retreat, got another chilly reception today when he arrived on the French Riviera, where he will live in a rented villa while the government looks for a country that will accept him.

He immediately ran into trouble in his new home when Grasse Mayor Herve de Fontmichel complained that the decision to permit the move was scandalous.

“This is an inopportune choice in which I was not consulted. I only heard he was coming several minutes before he arrived and I’m in charge of security. I find this scandalous,” he said.

Duvalier, his wife, Michele, and several family members left the Hotel de l’Abbaye in the French Alps resort village of Talloires in southeastern France early this morning. The party had rented the hotel for $7,100 a day since fleeing Haiti on Feb. 7.

After a six-hour drive, the party arrived in four cars at 9 a.m. in Grasse, 10 miles from the Mediterranean coast, and moved into the 10-room villa with swimming pool and tennis court, rented from Hubertus Nijssen of Holland.

“The Cote d’Azur has already welcomed all sorts of other deposed kings. Why not him, as long as he doesn’t bring his Tontons Macoutes?” one neighbor from Holland said, referring to the feared secret police of Haiti.

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