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Bernard Wasserstein wrote an excellent book on Lincoln Trebitsch.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1412674.The_Secret_Lives_of_Trebitsch_Lincoln

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Jul 30, 2020Liked by Ned Donovan

Good read and interesting thinking....

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Jul 30, 2020Liked by Ned Donovan

Good article, thanks for posting...

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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).

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That is one hell of a Wikipedia page

The man lived a life that for sure

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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?

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