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KING CHARLES ALBERT OF SARDINIA
King Charles Albert of Sardinia was a player in Monaco ’ s political environment because his Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia stretched to Piemonte on Monaco ’ s frontier and also surrounded Monaco to the West . Dumas seized upon a ‘ duel ’ over tobacco between these Royals as the central theme for his story ’ s plot . Imagine Monaco with its Mediterranean climate as a producer of tobacco rivalling the quality of Cuba . Dumas , continuing his travels in his stagecoach towards Florence , elaborates his plot around King Charles Albert of Sardinia who particularly dislikes both smoking tobacco and powdered tobacco . And then he injects intrigue into his story with Prince Honoré V resolving to take advantage of King Charles Albert ’ s distastes . |
poodle . The plot of Dumas ’ story thickens . The Prince of Monaco gives a pound of tobacco free to each of his fifty riflemen , and sends them to smoke on the borders of King Charles Albert ’ s domain .
THE MONACOIS AND THEIR HAVANESE CIGARS
The Sardinian soldiers sniffed the smoke of their neighbours who Dumas calls the Monacois ; it is as divine as genuine Havanese smoke . Dumas now imagines the Sardinian army on the verge of revolt with the Sardinian soldiers rushing to the frontiers of Honoré V asking the Charles Albert , King of Sardinia
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Honoré V , Prince of Monaco
FILL THE COFFERS
First of all we have to set the stage . This is 1835 before Prince Charles III and the Blancs and the great Casino venture around the 1860s . Monaco Princes were adept at finding revenue and two of the sources for Honoré V were customs duties and passport control . Monaco frontier posts were on an important route to Italy . Customs duties of 2 and a half percent on goods and 16 сents on passports helped the coffers from going bare . |
TOBACCO AND CIGARS TO RIVAL HAVANA
So Prince Honoré has a lot of tobacco planted . Next in the story comes ‘ cigars for a penny ’, which , given the fortunate position of the land and its climate , would rival those of Havana . This announcement causes turmoil in Sardinia . King Charles Albert sees his states flooded with cigars . Custom posts are few and far between . Cigars arrive in Sardinia like water through a sieve — five hundred cigars are soon past ; it ’ s possible to sow hundreds if not thousands into the skin of a passing |
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