The King’s Secret and the Black Cabinet
Louis XV, in the Eighteenth century created the Secret du Roi. It is a secret service, and in this we are in the tradition of the Cabinet Noir of Richelieu. This …
Category: History
The Forbidden City, or prestige through secrecy
What better example than the Forbidden City of Beijing (or Peking) to symbolize the culture of secrecy in order to guarantee prestige and authority? Construction of the Forbidden City began …
Nationalities and nationalisms in Europe before 1914
II. Nations and States (from the middle of the 19th century to 1914) 1. Nationalities and nationalism in Europe before 1914 → The exaltation of nationalism —the new European map …
Kennedy – “Ich bin ein Berliner”: explanations
“Ich bin ein Berliner”. This expression has marked a century, and its posterity is not over. Why this expression? Our explanations will first comment on the reasons for uttering such …
Sparta versus Athens
In the Athenian democracy of theFifth century, decisions were made in an open and public manner. This was not the case in Sparta, where secrecy was cultivated. Thucydides (Athenian historian, …
History from the 19th century to the present day
This collection of fact sheets takes you back two hundred years. It will be an opportunity to understand the rise of nationalism, the cultural and economic transformations in the world, …