Monaco: Europe’s Strangest Microstate
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Source/Further reading:
Britannica: www.britannica.com/place/Monaco
Official government history: en.gouv.mc/Government-Institu...
History from the office of the ambassador:monacodc.org/monhistory.html
History of the Monte Carlo Casino: www.thehistorypress.co.uk/art...
Timeline of events: web.archive.org/web/200504130...
Monaco’s Revolution: translate.google.com/translat...
Succession Crisis: www.heraldica.org/topics/nati...
Monaco in WWII: riviera-press.fr/insider/cont...
Monaco and the Holocaust: www.thejc.com/news/world/mona...
1962 Crisis: www.historyextra.com/period/h...
www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/we....
Seemingly-detailed history: web.archive.org/web/200504080...
Charles III: www.hellomonaco.com/sightseei...
Outdated, but some good history, esp. on 1967 etc: www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
Modern Sleaze and scandal: www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...
Italy, 1848: www.britannica.com/place/Ital...
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"The idea of France having to deal with the Geo-Political equivalent of a hostile chihuahua on its doorstep evidently tickled Madrid"... Bwahahaha... GREAT line!... THIS is why I watch you guys...
I can’t have been the only person hoping for at least a mention of the Grand Prix.
Not mentioning the GP is like saying everything about the USSR but not mentioning the Cold War. :P
@@tjitse3916 And the 60s with James Bond and all the cute girls and all that. Cigarettes.
Yes I was bitterly disappointed when he didn’t mention the Monaco grand prox
It should really be called the Tour de Monaco. You literally drive all the way around the country 80 times in one race.
@@mpetersen6 its only 78 times
my take away from this is that central park is much larger than I realized.
Actually, mine was that Monaco is way smaller than I thought...
If you think CP is large... Check out Golden Gate Park.
Yeah I was gonna say Golden Gate Park is a lot bigger. Central Park really isn’t that big it just photographs large and the whole idea of this famous park being in a larger than life city gives off a vibe that this park is huge
Forest park is one of the largest city parks
What if I tell you, A person in India single handedly created a forest much much bigger than Central Park. He got no help from anyone and this feat took 20 years to complete.
I was in Monaco for the first time two weeks ago and man I still can’t believe that place is real... it’s like fantasyland in real life. No trash, no homeless, and everyone is driving a Lamborghini or Bentley. But the insane wealth did not mean anyone was snobby...the people there were so nice and friendly. Such a weird but great little place.....just be aware that you have to take out two mortgages on your house to visit.
And none of the Lamborghini's was purple :-D
They’re a tax haven. They’re stealing the labor of other countries.
@Jacob Wilson “ their right” I don’t consider it a right to provide shelter to millionaire criminals that don’t contribute to society. These people from Microstates work so little yet get so much.
@Jacob Wilson Do you per chance look at the gilded age, slavery in the American South, coal mine companies etc. and screech "ThAtS nOt ReAl cApItAlISm!" And yes, dear friend, I do think millionaires harm society.
@Jacob Wilson False equivalencies and a misguided claim that that's in inherently socialistic or communistic and not Cultic megalomania mixed with pretend-communism is generally showing an ignorant take and a lack of understanding into the topic of communism and socialism. But nevertheless we did manage to find common ground in that billionaires are disgusting. Hoorah to that, akhi.
Monaco has the most bizarre and amazing train station I ever saw. Since they were strapped for space, they simply hollowed-out the inside of one of their big hills and made the train station there. It's like you're inside this enormous lit-up rock cave and the train shows up. They definitely have got style.
Our original train station was on the seafront and the train tracks were on what is now the only motorway across town. The new underground station opened only in the 70s.
@@TheoHockeyton are you monégasque citizen ?
@@Pablo24000 yes I am.
@@TheoHockeyton do you want monaco to be part of france or stay independent ?
@@TheoHockeyton you don't have a french passport ?
"racing in monte carlo is like riding a bicycle around your living room".
~Nelson Piquet Sr.
😀👍
The words of a man who never won there.
Just to be fair: I imagine a three times world champion to have a rather large living room, though.
I cant believe you went with "sucker" for Ghibellines when Gullible was stood right there in front of an empty goal.
Please do a Geographics video on Simon's basement. You can blend it into a Biographics video of the people he has locked down there.
I 2nd dis
Plot twist: he keeps Dave and the rest of his staff down there
Why do i feel like thats true. Def seems like the type to have bodies in the bssement. He didnt kill them. But he has em.
Including Indy Nidell?
Danny stop making alt accounts pushing your freedom propaganda.
Freedom for Danny!
Now I want a channel where Simon recounts the entire history of countries, even those that have long disappeared.
ALL OF THIS!!!!
Yes, we need histories of fictional countries as well like freedonia, Sylvania, moronica, Etc
@@rufust.firefly2474 can’t forget Genovia 👀
Hell yeah!
@@rufust.firefly2474 let's not forget Elbonia, the mighty nation supplied with arms by Ian McCollum aka Gun Jesus, and with armoured vehicles by Nicholas Moran aka The Chieftan
Also home of the prestigious Formula One race, the Monaco Grand Prix.
AND the Monte Carlo Rally, crown jewel of the World Rally Championship and at one time host to a high-end speed boat grand prix in the harbor AND an air race!
Yet no mention at all. Shameful.
AND one of the most prestigious car shows (weeks) in the world!
That's what everyone knows about manaco, how about something we don't know
Fun fact : Monaco is right now building a new polder on the sea that will increase its size! visited MC 3 times the first time as a kid 1966 so I saw the changes the Principality went through. The new Princess Grace hospital that's being built right now is also an engineering feat.
Fun fact, there's only one farmer in whole of Monaco.
And his farm is actually a terrarium.
@Maria Kelly look it up, not a traditional farm.
58...Lichtenstein has 35 policemen and 4 German Shepherds (at least it did when I visited in '87).
Ah, there is also an oyster farmer that runs la Pearl de monaco
Another fun fact, there are no plumber's helpers in Mo na Co, and Google doesn't know how to spell it
Can you do a segment on Malta 🇲🇹. I’ve always been curious of their history.
I thought he already did.
Apparently Malta almost became part of the UK and even voted for it but the UK decided against it.
@N-B Rico you mean Knights.
Malta is beautiful. Went there as part of my honeymoon in 2014. The "city" of Mdina is so small you could walk from one end to the other in 5 minutes.
Agreed. You could do an episode on the great siege in 1565 alone. Although then that leads down the great internet rabbit hole of the templars... You have been warned!!!
AKA where every f1 stashes their money/lives
"Every f1"?
Good on them. Their only to do as they wish
I mean the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc is from there.
@@DevinEMILE and nico rosberg. Lots of f1 drivers were born in monaco to parents who were drivers before them, and some like verstappen werent born there, but still spent lots of time in monaco as kids
@@tnikoli40 David Coulthard admitted in an interview that he likes living in Monaco cause of the super low taxes.
"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire." I can hear Mike Myers as Linda Richman on SNL quoting this line in my head.
I positively LOVE having visited Monaco (at least) once in my life. Just be careful when in the aquarium there; the tank with the piranhas did NOT have a "lid" on it when I visited it WAY BACK in 1993.
"...decided to super kill one another..."
Super kill is my new favourite saying 😂
Most of the foreign wealthy only come for a couple days or weeks durring the F1 Grand Prix. Many tiny apartments there go for tens of millions of dollars. All the F1 drivers live there. I got to go to Europe in August of 90' but didn't get to go there. I hope to go some day. This is a lot more researched and more through than any of the other videos I've seen on Monaco. Thank you.
I've visited...its crass. Nothing but rich Russian oligarchs & huge yachts. I usually stay in Villefranche and Nice. Much much nicer. I'm Irish, flight is only about 3 hours.
Rhode Islander here. Thanks for the shout out! Rhode Island is absolutely tiny, Houston Texas is bigger than the entire State of Rhode Island. Monaco must truly be a micro state
Can’t talk about Monaco without the grand prix involved somewhere
“Nah dude the pope is totally where it’s at.” -Guelphs 1215
I spent a day there once, they had some really unusual museums exhibits at the time. Not sure if they are still there, but we went to the Jaques Cousteau museum, a museum for early automatons (amazing), and there was another one about some major north pole expedition that I think a member of their royal family participated in. There were also some beautiful gardens with massive koi ponds. Fantastic day trip.
Here is an idea for one of your channel's, the transport and construction of the Statue of Liberty.
SideProjects or MegaProjects, maybe? Sounds cool.
Tom...that was built in skeleton form, and came by ships (many, many).
H
I've got a feeling he's already done it... or maybe that was another channel
In my latest novel I based one significant place on Monaco because it sometimes feels like the world has completely forgotten it.
Thanks for bringing it back to the fore.
How probable is it to see an over 20 minute long video on Monaco and never having mentioned Formula 1?
Really well done! You all are getting good at this. I did almost spit red wine across my keyboard with the Chihauhua cut away.
I can't believe you made no mention of the Gran Prix de Monaco, which drew even greater attention (and money) to Monaco than marrying Grace Kelly did.
23 consecutive wins on Roulette, The Odds of that make my head hurt, Had to be a Magnetic & Mechanical Fix.
but it can happen
Fun that you release this while i was wondering what was the deal with monaco in my heart of iron 4 kaiserreich game haha. I was thinking they meant morroco or some place lost in central america until now.
Very good, but I think that Monaco's pioneering role in funding oceanographic research in the Mediterranean should also have been highlighted.
@Patricia Palmer The fact that nobody "heard about it" does not imply that research was not a pioneer. They date back to the beginning of the last century.
Yes it is an amazing place to visit, something that was never mention is the world famous Monaco Grand Prix that runs through the streets
I thought the title said Europes strangest microwave, I was a little disappointed when it wasn't haha
1:20 - Chapter 1 - The dawn of the grimaldi
4:40 - Chapter 2 - Keeping it royal
7:50 - Chapter 3 - Revolution rock
11:25 - Mid roll ads
12:20 - Chapter 4 - Casino royale
16:15 - Chapter 5 - Wars & revolutions
20:00 - Chapter 6 - Modern times
Love your videos, love the depth and the storytelling method, all of your channels are gems
Thanks for making a great and fair video about my favourite place! Good conclusion at the end aswell.
Was waiting for this, love it!
Simon as a fellow history nerd I appreciate every video you make. Keep it up please!
23 minute long video on monaco and doesn't even mention the Monaco grand prix?
Geographics should cover Liberland, which is a very unique micronation in Europe❗️
@N-B Rico it's not a recognized nation
It's a small swampy river bank on Serbia-Croatia border which is for various reasons claimed by neither of those countries, so a small bunch of European libertarians decide to claim it as an independent libertarian country. Population: one stray dog.
I want a Europe of 10,000 Liechtensteins
A libertarian dream.
@@joelhamilton8959, Israel and Taiwan are nations unrecognized by some countries, yet they exist.
I freaking love you.
That intro had me so excited to learn!
The city state of Monaco has even a smaller land area than the city of Chelsea in Massachusetts (the city with relatively the same population of 40k). Chelsea is the smallest city by land area in all of Massachusetts, even smaller than Cambridge and Somerville, both of which are also extremely dense.
The Grimaldis own a chateau (chateau de marchais ) in the north of France surrounded by 2,000 hectares. They could fit Monaco 8x over their hunting lodge.
i love you and your play on words! “... so tiny, it would make rhode island colossus” 🥳🙏🏽 respect
If you're doing Microstates, do the Republic of San Marino next.
In Australia, the casino would have become hugely popular, so the government instead of helping the citizen's they would sell it to their rich corporate friends who would become so rich they would influence every decision the government took and become even richer and pay no tax or very little tax ever again. The people of Australia on the other hand would no longer have any public assets that made money and would become dependent on the rich corporation, who in turn would lower wages and stifle any wage growth, so the citizens of the land would become forever in debt, however, the they would still love the corporations for the crumbs that were thrown down the peasant pit to get on with their downtrodden lives. Never would this be discussed again due to the absolute brain deadening TV shows that took their pitiful minds of the crisis they were having and never be able to dig their way out of. Hooray for the government of Australia...
so the government built a casino? i need more info
@@GetSmartGaming son, can you read? He's playing with hypothesis and metafors.
Straya!
Thank you for all of the useful information you give through all of your team's hard work.
Many thanks for an excellent video!
On a crime show I heard MC referred to as "A sunny place for shady people" attributed to a British author as I recall.
Thank you. I made the suggestion a few months ago to look at these micro states & territories and we finally have one. Love it
They also did Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Vatican and Fiume City State (a micronation in Croatia which lasted a year and a half)
Monaco is like the Singapore of Europe, from its riches, both being tiny countries to even their flags
China-Singapore population size comparison is about the same as France-Monaco. But I think Singapore is more like Liechtenstein. Monaco is like Hong Kong.
@@nicksurface3513Hong Kong isn't a separate country
They also have a rather famous car race; might have warranted a mention.
Lol you’d think. That’s where most of the formula drivers live too.
@@Oldwhiteguy Because of the climate and the nice central location..
Make your own video
Lol also I just learned they have a racer there, interesting....
Super Monaco GP for the Genesis ftw
Aaahh ...Again love your work Simon 👏
Nice work Simon 👍👍
Simon and Crew have been knocking it out of the park lately.
Very comprehensive, well done.
Why was there no mention of one of the greatest and most classic sporting events in history, the Monaco Grand Prix? To this day, this Formula 1 race is one of the most prestigious auto races in the world.
“Makes Rhode Island look like a colossus”
I’m on to you Simon
I've been in the casino business for 20 years...and guess what...the house always wins !
The overall odds to the house itself I think from memory are about 2.5% if all possibilities covered
plot twist: simon actually rules monaco from the shadows...
Shhhh dont tell the world his secrets
From his Raid Shadow Legend
The boy with the blaze need SOMEWHERE to smash that dislike button.
Allegedly
@@skyerose501 ...of his beard.
Simon saying “smash that like button” sounds so strange after a steady diet of business blaze 😂
I only recognize Grimaldi due to one member of that family being a target in AC2, and Shaun having a very memorable intro to his profile.
I STILL can’t stand the commercials but you did make me smile a lot! Good show!
Fascinating history that deserves to be remembered!
About damn time Simon. Tell Danny to hurry up with those blaze scripts or he doesn't get out of the basement this week.
Stuck in the basement and Gordon Ramsey yelling at him volume on max and on repeat the entire time
@@mizzshortie907 _ABSOLUTELY_ 👏
@@mizzshortie907 ALLEGEDLY!
Why are you so good at making education unflinchingly interesting.
Great upload.
Monaco - Western Europe's answer to The Village from "The Prisoner".
Full of plastic people who look at you like they just stood in something..prices sky high to keep the plebs out.
Please visit Portmerion
Yes, where The Prisoner was filmed!
That was fabulous. Thanks
Next Microstate? Macau would be really interesting, even if its not a country. Brunei is, though...and might make for a great episode as well.
The shortest race on the F1 calendar, yet the track covers almost the entire country.
Went there in 2011. Stayed in Nice and visited for a day. Saw the Monte Carlo casino and thought I would have a look.
Parked outside were 2 Ferrari, 1 Porshe and some other cars I could never afford, so went to the slot machines opposite. The jackpot on the 1st machine was €2.5M.
Great contents. Thanks.
I'd love a Bottomless lakes of New Mexico episode!
As for Monaco, as resilient and fascinating as it is, covid is hitting it where and how it lives, hard.
Wonderful episode regardless!
lmao the rich aren't affected by covid just the lower and middle class
@@scooterdogg7580 Not at all. Sure, rich powerful people can get better treatments and get them earlier joe-schmo. But wealthy, powerful people are almost by definition HIGHLY socially active and travel widely. They have gotten sick and - like everyone else - died from COVID19. The more people cry "elite conspiracy theory situation" falsely, the less effective and listened to true whistle-blower and investigators are in getting at ACTUAL elite corruption. Like crying wolf.
@@scooterdogg7580 Alot of Monacos economy is about tourism, so obviously Covid has affected it. Also rich people's money dosen't grow on trees, of course it affects them.
It was in April 2001 I had the opportunity to visit Monaco. The cost of parking our tour bus for two hours was $90.00. I recall seeing the crypt of Princess Grace, the palace and the casino.
Great video. Thanks Geo Team
Good info
I loved living in Monaco for three years in the 1980's. It's a very civilized place.
Beyond the Grand Prix, the Palace is a fun tour and the Aquarium is quite nice also. One tip, if you are down by the water and want to get back up to the top, use the escalators and elevators of the train station. You can get a quick tour of the city on a hop on hop off bus. Also, Mentone and Mentone=Garamonde are nice to visit also.
Monaco is to France what the Cayman is to the UK (offshore banking). What I don't understand is that since Monaco's currency is the € it's not a member of the EU (same thing with Andorra and San Marino)
They are tiny states so they didn't have their own currency even before the euro (it would be totally useless for such a tiny state to have their own currency, it's much more efficient to have the same currency than their big neighbourg). All these states used the currency of their neighbourgs before (Monaco the French franc, San Marino the Italian lira and Andorra the French franc and the Spanish peseta). Since these big neighbourgs dropped their national currency for the euro, then the microstates de facto did the same. So it has nothing to do with the European Union, but using the money of their neighbourgs (which use the euro). Monaco uses the Euro because France uses the euro, even if it's not part of the European union (before they used the French franc yet they were not part of France, same with San Marino and Italy).
In fact Monaco even had the Monegasque franc (but it was basically French franc printed in Monaco with a different design that had the same value than French franc and could also be used everywhere in France and French franc could be used everywhere in Monaco, just like today euro coins have different designs according to their country of origin but can be used everywhere in the Eurozone).
Another exemple is Liechtenstein that use the Swiss franc. If Switzerland had joined the European Union and had changed its currency for the euro, then Liechstenstein would have done the same.
Also there are a lot of countries using the money of a foreign country (for exemple some central American countries like Salvador and Panama use the US dollar and some Balkans countries like Montenegro and Kosovo use the Euro, but in these cases it's more to have a stable currency than for practical reason).
Interesting episode. Thx.🇨🇦
Got to visit Monaco when visiting France in 2017. Got some nice food and got to see the changing of the guards there.
I like the accent you put on when describing Monaco-you sound like Robin Leach, or Alan Whicker.
How much more can Monaco expand into the sea? I would like to see an episode on the land reclamation in Monaco.
There's actually ongoing construction to build another small neighborhood
@@qp667 Yes, the La Portier ward.
They can't really expand using the sea. The Alpes Maritimes départment surrounding Monaco has strict rules.
@@antoinemozart243 They have expanded using the sea.
@@Andrew-df1dr they can't. Their zone is ultra limited.
You should do a video about the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, it played a big role in WWII in the war in the Pacific and would be really cool!
It's an F1 hub for events held in May.
Woohoo I’m here on time! Love learning new things from all your channels ♥️ the blaze most of all
And home to Charles Marc Herve Perceval Leclerc, the only Scuderia Ferrari driver that wasn't mistreated by the Italians.
Finally a comment about our lord and savior!
LOL!!! Simon doing promotion for a brand of _shaving razors!_
We were lucky enough to visit Monaco in late Feb.2020 just before COVID wrecked tourism..Glad we did!
3:00 Rumors say, that if you were friends to a count or barony, you can get around the tollbooth castle for free.
I don't think I could massacre any language the way you can, you should do a stage act where you read out things written in French, German, Italian and Spanish. It would be comedy gold!
Even in English. At least when it comes to the American version.
Other people: *I have a TH-cam channel*
Simon: *These are rookie numbers you gotta pump these up*
The chihuahua line was well thought out. Nice.
Your end speech gave me goosebumps 😌
Thank you for your videos, and please stay safe. Blue still poppin on you. 🤗💯🔥
Great video
Good video 👍
Thanks for this! I've always wondered about this place. My perception was that it was a quaint little vacation enclave - which may well be accurate, but perspective is important.
I REALLY had no notion of Rainier's war record. I respect the guy a bit more now. Interesting that a man can become ruler of a sovereign country (in 1949) but remain a junior officer in another country's army (until 1954).
That chihuahua looked so much like mine when I try to take a rawhide from her 😂
I see no problem anytime a palace is turned into a hospital. It should happen more often.
Then you must not understand that human existence in any meaningful form requires balance. Palaces are important parts of overall human culture, just as are hospitals.
Suggestion for either here on this channel, or on Sideprojects (or Business Blaze, considering one of the reasons why it's interesting) - do a video on Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark?