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- ALAIN DAUSSIN
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The Residence Palace in Brussels looks like it has stepped straight out of the pages of 'Tintin in America.'
When I was a kid, my parents lived just across the road from the behemoth in a small house, and very quickly, I imagined exploiting the windfall of such a situation. I got into the habit of inviting my school friends up to the attic, where, perched on a stool to reach the skylight, they could see 'America,' and all for five centimes (Belgian