Communicating the North

Happy moderation – Serge de Chessin’s promotion of Sweden in France as a counter image to bolchevik Russia

“…Intra-European imagological hierarchies have traditionally seen the semi-peripheral northern areas, that were not part of the Roman Empire, as being of a lesser level concerning cultural heritage. 16 However, the ideas portrayed by the romantic movement contributed to an elevation of this image of a more natural state as something to be highly valued. As such, it also reaffirmed the positive promotion of northern regions present among many Enlightenment philosophers applying a more scientific rhetoric, Montesquieu being one of the most prominent.…”