(EN) COLONIAL ECONOMY AND WEALTH
room 13 ECHOES
- TOUR B - The colonial history of Luxembourg
Chocolate, tobacco, coffee, diamonds, cotton and prosperity for Luxembourg: Exploitation, slavery and wars for the colonies.
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KBL and Bd Royal: our neo-colonial financial centre
Grand-Rue: chocolate and other colonial goods
Heintz Van Landewyck: colonial tobacco
Mossack Fonseca: panamapapers and neocolonialism
Capuchin Theatre: The Capuchins and Louisiana
Nespresso: coffee and its so-called "discovery" (by a Luxembourger)
The Cercle Cité: a high-profile visit to the Colonial Exhibition
The Third World shop: fair or foul?
Schroeder Jewelers: Pearls and diamonds for the crown
The sculptures of the so-called "Pharmacie des Maures"
The bookseller Jean-Pierre Kuborn and his cotton industry
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