Army units guard Mr Mugabe's splendid residence and offices.
I mentioned that I had seen documents about Khan's personal finances, produced by his political opponents, showing that, apart from his splendid residence, which he says was paid for from the sale of his London flat, he often has had little money in his bank accounts.
Through drawings and photographs, we also see the impact of the opera on the city, where Haussmann's wrecking ball was opening avenues and encouraging the building of splendid residences and immeubles de rapport intended to be rented out as shops and flats, in the style that would bear his name.
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and house sit next to the splendid former residence of the Governor-General of Indochina -- now the Presidential Palace -- completed in 1905.
At his splendid chief minister's residence, Mr Yadav sneers at these measures, accusing his rival but not himself of "casteism .No matter: there is little reason to expect much change for UP.
Then the pompous, wealthy, comedically oblivious Van Peteghem family arrives to take up residence in their splendid summer estate, the Typhonium, perched high on a hillside overlooking the bay.
So when the next presidential election is held, probably in the spring of 2002, Mr Chirac will need more than just his charm to defeat Mr Jospin and prolong his residence in the splendid Elysée Palace.On the other hand, another Chirac characteristic is luck.
He has four residences, including two houses in Morocco, a splendid pied-a-terre in historic Albany (the traditional London residence for those with grand country estates) and a thatched cottage he has rented in Clifton Hampden.
The Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburgs, with its splendid rooms decorated in Rococo style and its great formal park, lies to the southwest in the suburb of Hietzing.
And in the splendid opera Greek by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's composer-in-residence Mark-Anthony Turnage.
The splendid secular buildings of the Baroque era proclaimed Vienna's stature as an imperial residence and one of the great world capitals.
