1.   At the foot of the hill is a French colonial villa by the river, once a royal palace and now the Royal Palace Museum.

2.   Most businesses are operating out of hotel rooms, business centers and even renovated French villas.

3.   Tall buildings are rapidly replacing the graceful French villas.

4.   And the yellow stucco of French colonial villas blends with the green of palms and tamarind trees.

5.   Cheaply constructed hotels have sprouted among the French colonial villas and tree-shaded streets.

6.   Foreign volunteers, led by Rosemary Taylor, an ex-nun from Australia, placed them in five French villas that had been converted into orphanages.

7.   Zaire leader rules out of French villa.

8.   Former Haitian leader Jean-Claude Duvalier has left the French villa where he was holed up amid the latest crisis in his homeland, neighbours said Wednesday.

9.   Mobutu was said to be at his French villa late Monday after leaving Switzerland where he has been treated for prostate cancer.