Interesting. Although you may want to re-phrase this: "None of these great potentates would ever have imagined that the tiny stubs of countries they took pity on would have legacies much longer than their own"
Somehow, I don't think San Marino's "legacy" is greater than that of the Roman Empire. The "tiny stubs" have survived longer, don't I think they have a greater legacy.
On another note, it's curious that the most notable microstates seem to be in Europe. As far as I can tell, the smallest independent nation in Asia is Maldives (340k), in Africa it's Seychelles (90k) and LatAm it's 3m (Uruguay).
How a journalist who comes to Monaco for such a short visit, can understand what has happened there since the Grimaldi Dynasty started in 1297 and the sovereignty of Monaco was recognized by the French King Louis XIII in 1641?
Sovereignty was not officially recognised until the French Monegasque Treaty of 1861. Because, as I’m sure you know, revolutionary France took full control.
Bernard Wasserstein wrote an excellent book on Lincoln Trebitsch.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1412674.The_Secret_Lives_of_Trebitsch_Lincoln
Wow thanks!
Good read and interesting thinking....
Good article, thanks for posting...
Interesting. Although you may want to re-phrase this: "None of these great potentates would ever have imagined that the tiny stubs of countries they took pity on would have legacies much longer than their own"
Somehow, I don't think San Marino's "legacy" is greater than that of the Roman Empire. The "tiny stubs" have survived longer, don't I think they have a greater legacy.
On another note, it's curious that the most notable microstates seem to be in Europe. As far as I can tell, the smallest independent nation in Asia is Maldives (340k), in Africa it's Seychelles (90k) and LatAm it's 3m (Uruguay).
That is one hell of a Wikipedia page
The man lived a life that for sure
How a journalist who comes to Monaco for such a short visit, can understand what has happened there since the Grimaldi Dynasty started in 1297 and the sovereignty of Monaco was recognized by the French King Louis XIII in 1641?
Sovereignty was not officially recognised until the French Monegasque Treaty of 1861. Because, as I’m sure you know, revolutionary France took full control.