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Leopold II's 1854 Grand Tour: Shaping a Colonial King
In 1854, a young Prince Leopold set off on a year-long journey through the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and the Holy Land. This Grand Tour, far from being a simple aristocratic rite of passage, was a formative experience that shaped Leopold II's later colonial ambitions in the Congo. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the specific sites Leopold visited, the people he met, and the ideas he absorbed—from the Suez Canal project to the Ottoman reforms of the Tanzimat, from the biblical landscapes of Palestine to the harems of Constantinople. They discuss how Leopold's encounters with…
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