Original release 13 juin 2022
Previous episode S16E07 - Marguerite d'Angoulême : la perle de François Ier
Number S16E08
Episode runtime 120 minutes
Country France
Original language French
Genres Documentary, History
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Albert 1er de Monaco, le prince des océans

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Arrière-arrière-grand-père de l’actuel souverain Albert II, il passe près de trente ans de son existence à parcourir les mers du globe, des Açores aux Caraïbes en passant par le Cap-Vert et les régions polaires de l’Arctique. Initiant les principales campagnes océanographiques de la fin du XIXe siècle, pionnier dans de nombreux domaines, il fait aussi du Rocher le lieu de toutes les innovations en y organisant notamment l’un des premiers meetings d’hydravions et le vol d’un prototype d’hélicoptère. Avec son épouse la princesse Alice, Albert Ier donne à la Principauté un rayonnement artistique inédit. Fervent pacifiste, il n’hésite pas à intervenir personnellement auprès de l’empereur Guillaume II pour tenter d’éviter le premier conflit mondial. Prince humaniste, moderne et visionnaire, il est l’un des tout premiers à alerter sur la nécessité de préserver l’environnement et en particulier les océans.

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Secrets d'histoire Season 20 Finale: Stéphane Bern's Messalina Episode Ends a Season About Reputations on Trial

Twenty seasons in, "Secrets d'histoire" can still surprise its audience. The Season 20 finale aired on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 9:10 p.m. on France 3, and Stéphane Bern closed the season with one of the most notorious women of antiquity: Messalina, the third wife of Emperor Claudius. If you watched it, you already know it was more than a parade of Roman scandal. It was a careful re-examination of a woman whose name has been shorthand for depravity for almost two thousand years. If you haven't caught up yet, this debrief shows why the episode, and the whole season, deserves a place in your watchlist.

A finale that puts history's verdict on trial

The question at the centre of the finale was simple: does Messalina deserve the brutal nickname history gave her? Roman writers handed down a woman driven by insatiable desire and a hunger for power. Bern's team took that portrait apart piece by piece. They asked who wrote the story, why they wrote it, and what they gained from it. This is the series at its best. It doesn't simply retell a legend. It looks into how the legend was made. Messalina's world gave the episode plenty of drama: Caligula, Nero, Agrippina and the freedman Narcissus all appear, each with their own agenda in the deadly politics of the Julio-Claudian court. Without spoiling anything for latecomers, the finale's real emotional pull comes from the gap between the caricature and the young woman caught up in a machine much bigger than she was.

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