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In France, to which he went as often as he could, he had his choice of 39 properties, four of them on the Avenue Foch in Paris, in which to hobnob with the cream of the Elysee. Swanning round as he did, paying for everything with crisp wads of notes, he naturally funnelled money to French politicians, right or left, who caught his eye. When Valery Giscard d'Estaing complained about Gabonese funding of his rival, Jacques Chirac, Mr Bongo once again failed to grasp what he objected to.

Dirt roads and champagne
At home, since Gabon was his, he cosseted it one moment and ravaged it the next. In 2002 he created 13 national parks, but the trees and even the waterfalls could go for a consideration. His lordly airs were impressive for a farmer's son from Lewai (now Bongoville), the youngest of at least nine children, born "without a cot or a nanny", as he boasted on his website, and whose expectations under French rule had extended no further than working in the post office. Usefulness and scheming got him right to the top, to become President Leon M'ba's right-hand man and, when M'ba died in 1967, president himself as well as minister of defence, interior, information and planning.

A. 어휘
choice 선택, 特選品(특선품), 逸品(일품). property 부동산, 재산.
Avenue Foch 프랑스 파리의 포쉬街(가).
hobnob with 친하게 지내다, 함께 술을 마시다.
the cream 사교계의 스타들, 精髓(정수), 精華(정화).
the Elysee 프랑스 대통령 官邸(관저). swan 우아하게 놀고 다니다.
crisp (종이가) 새롭고 빳빳한, 기운찬, 활발한. pad (종이의) 뭉치, 綴(철). note 지폐.
funnel 중심으로 모으다, 깔때기로 통과시키다.
Valery Giscard d󰡑Estaing 프랑스의 前대통령.
Jacques Chirac 프랑스의 前대통령. grasp 파악하다. object to ...에 반대하다.
cosset 귀여워하다, 응석을 받아 주다. ravage 파괴하다, 황폐시키다.
go for 구하다, 요구하다. consideration 代價(대가), 배려.
lordly 군주의, 당당한, 뽐내는. airs 자세, 태도. cot 어린이용 침대. nanny 유모.
boast 자랑하다. expectations 유망한 가망, 遺産(유산). extend 뻗치다, 잡아늘이다.
scheming 계획세우는 것, 考案(고안). minister of interior 내무장관.

B. 구문
- [그는 가능한 한 자주 갔던 프랑스에서 그의 39개의 부동산(고급 저택: 이들 중 네 곳은 파리 포쉬街가에 있었다)중에서 하나를 선택하여 이 곳에서 엘리제궁의 최고위 인물들과 친하게 어울렸다.]
- Swanning round as he did
cf. as he did→ 분사 swanning을 강조.
[우아하게 돌아다니면서]

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Gabon's riches eased his way at every turn. A timber concession here, a stretch of paved road or a Bongo stadium there, disarmed anyone who objected to his way of doing things. Even Pierre Mamboundou, his most diligent opponent, was soothed after many years with $21.5m spent on his constituency. Business visitors to the capital found it chic, feudal and hospitable, like an Arab emirate in Mr Bongo's time, Gabon's consumption of champagne was said to be the highest in the world. Everyone could be suborned or sweetened except his first wife, Josephine, who became a pop singer after the divorce and sang cutting songs about her young replacement.
Outside the glamour of Libreville, where the M'bolo hypermarche offered shining shelves of fine wines and best French cheese, a third of his people travelled on back-breaking roads between villages without clinics, subsisting on cassava and fishing. But Mr Bongo brought decades of tranquillity, a rare enough commodity in Central Africa order, and prosperity for a close and favoured few. So on June 11th hundreds of Gabonese lined up, clutching his portrait, outside the presidential palace where, in a flower-filled chapel, he lay in state, rather small in his coffin, in the country that was his.

A. 어휘
riches 富(부), 재물. timber 목재. concession 허가, 이권, 면허.
a stretch of paved road 하나의 포장도로. disarm 武裝解除(무장해제)하다.
object to ...에 반대하다. opponent 대립자, 적대자. soothe 달래다, 진정시키다.
constituency 선거구민, 선거구. chic 멋있는, 맵시 있는. feudal 封建的(봉건적)인.
hospitable 대접이 좋은, 환대하는. emirate 土侯國(토후국).
consumption 소비. suborn 매수하다. sweeten 달래다, 가라앉히다.
except ...외에는(전치사). divorce 이혼. cutting 남의 감정을 몹시 해치는, 신랄한.
replacement 교체자, 보충 요원. glamour 황홀하게 하는 마력.
M󰡑bolo hypermarche 엠 볼로 슈퍼마켓.
shining shelves of fine wines 고급 와인의 번쩍번쩍하는 진열선반.
back-breaking 매우 힘이 드는. clinics 진료소. subsist 생활해 나가다.
cassava 열대지방에 나는 녹말함유 식물. tranquillity 조용함, 평화, 靜穩(정온).
commodity 일용품. order 질서. prosperity 번영.
a close and favoured few 가깝고 혜택을 받는 소수(소수 특권층).
line up 堵列(도열)하다. clutch 꽉 쥐다. portrait 초상화.
presidential palace 대통령 관저. chapel 부속 예배당.
lie in state [遺骸(유해)가] 정장하여 식장에 안치되다.