Documentary articles

The Azores. A location, a memory

The correspondence exchanged between the two sovereigns, Dom Carlos I of Portugal and Albert I of Monaco, highlights their efforts to bring about a major achievement: a network of meteorological observatories in the Azores.

A place, a memory

On 3 August 1894, the Prince and Princess Alice were invited for lunch at the Sintra National Palace – in the small town near Lisbon listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site – with King Dom Carlos of Portugal.

A man, a Prince

Writer and philosopher Armand Lunel (1892–1977), who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Monaco, and was a friend of Darius Milhaud, was appointed as philosophy teacher at Monaco Lycée by a sovereign ordinance issued by Prince Albert I in 1920.

Did you know ?

In April 1922, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography presented Prince Albert I with the prestigious Vega Medal in recognition of his contribution to the advancement of geographical sciences.