Indolent Playboy

Translated from French by Luc Sâr

“Indolent Playboy”
By N. Sihanouk

Beijing, February 9, 2007

On the occasion of the historical Victory of the FUNC-GRUNC-FAPLNC-KHMER ROUGE (April 17, 1975), Mr. Serge Romensky had the kindness to dedicate a long article about me, the first lines of which [read]: “AFP, Beijing, April 17, 1975. Cambodian Prince, by Serge Romensky. Norodom Sihanouk, a king at the age of 19 and a prince at 33 after a voluntary abdication (…).. The prince, an indolent (I underline, N.S.) playboy when he was a young Sovereign (…) …”.

A playboy and … indolent. That’s funny!

I do not recall that I was “indolent”… in anything whatsoever.

(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk

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Note:

Indolent: A synonym for laziness (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)