Documentary articles

Flore Singer

Flore Singer was an important figure in Parisian life and a loyal friend to the Prince.She was born in 1824 and died in Paris on 28 November 1915. A salon host and author, for almost half a century she hosted a salon at her Paris home on the first floor of the Hôtel de Chimay, a location which inspired Proust’s depiction of the Verdurin salon.  

Objects and instruments

Prince Albert I was fascinated by inventions such as photography, cinematography and means of transport such as bicycles, motorcycles and aeronautics. 

William Speirs Bruce. A man, a Prince

William Speirs Bruce, a Scottish oceanographer who specialised in polar science, was born in London on 1 August 1867 and died in Edinburgh on 28 October 1921. He took part in two of the Prince’s scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen, in 1898 and 1899. 

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.