Season 10, Episode 12: More Pilot than Child (Patreon)
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This week on MSB, we visit Barcelona and find that the Catalan independence movement may well have gotten what it wanted, even if it took until the Universal Century. Plus Uso doesn't know what kind of episode he's in, Duker Iq's globe-spanning influence becomes apparent, Fuala belongs on the runway, and Thom wants to know what exactly Uso meant when he said that 'League Militaire' means 'Holy Alliance in ancient Roman'.
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The Japanese spelling of League Militaire (リガ・ミリティア / 軍事同盟) can be confirmed on the Japanese Wikipedia page for the organization (but spoilers abound so be careful!).
Basic information about the etymology of league / ligue and militaire, and their Latin ancestors ligo (ligare) and militaris can be found at the following Wiktionary pages: league, ligue, ligo, militaire, militaris.
The ordinary Japanese pronunciation of 'militaire' (ミリテール) can be seen on the Japanese Wikipedia page for the École militaire.
More information about the Super Famicom game Militia (ミリティア) can be found on: Nintendo's Japanese e-shop page for the game, the pixiv page, the weblio page, Japanese Wikipedia, and English Wikipedia.
Here's the original game box art (left) and the cover art for a tie in novel (right):
Information about French officer Émile Driant and his Ligue Militaire can be found on his Wikipedia pages (French and English), and on this memorial website dedicated to his life and writings.
Driant's father-in-law, General Georges Boulanger, and the Boulangist movement he led, is discussed on Britannica, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia.com, and on Marxists.org (this page by Mitchell Abidor).
General information about the Greek Military League / Ligue Militaire available on: French Wikipedia and on Britannica.
Their successful coup was the Goudi coup, described here.
Their main accomplishment was the election of reforming Prime Minister Eleutherios Venezelos (his Wikipedia and Britannica pages).
You know he's a big deal because there's an international airport named after him.
Eleftherios Venizelos: The Leader Who Expanded Greece’s Borders, by Philip Chrysopolous for GreekReporter.com.
Another, more intimate view of Venizelos is recorded in the correspondence of the famous writer Nikos Kazantzakis, who vacillated between respect and disdain for Venizelos. The translator Peter Bien presented a selection of quotes from Kazantzakis' letters dealing with Venizelos here: A Personal View of Eleftherios Venizelos from 1902 until 1933 as Recorded in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Selected Letters.
Information about the Bulgarian Military League:
They are mentioned in the Britannica article on Bulgaria's postwar politics, and on Aleksandar Stamboliyski's Wikipedia page.
They have their own page on Bulgarian Wikipedia, but in English they are not as well known as their co-conspirators in IMRO and Zveno.
Regarding Uso's claim that League Militaire comes from 'old Roman' / 古いローマの言葉:
The passage from Livy I referenced is Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 7, Chapter 11: "et hercule tanti ea ad universi belli eventum momenti dimicatio fuit ut Gallorum exercitus proxima nocte relictis trepide castris in Tiburtem agrum atque inde societate belli facta commeatuque benigne ab Tiburtibus adiutus mox in Campaniam transient." The full passage can be read in English and Latin on Perseus.
The passage from Caesar is C. Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book 6, Chapter 2: "Inventis nonnullis civitatibus iureiurando inter se confirmant obsidibusque de pecunia cavent: Ambiorigem sibi societate et foedere adiungunt." The full passage can be read in English and Latin on Perseus.
Ligua in the sense of a league or confederacy is attested in a small number of medieval texts within the electronic corpus of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, as accessible through Logeion.
Background information about the Pippinids (or Pippiniden in German) can be found on Wikipedia in English or German.
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