Bourquin, Maurice Keywords: Europe | Alliances | Political history | Mots clefs: Europe | Alliances | Histoire politique | ABSTRACT In his course, Maurice Bourquin does not try to expose the entire work of the Holy Alliance – which would be impossible, he says – but to analyze certain aspects of this work chosen because of their importance and, sometimes, analogies they offer with the current problems of the international organization as it emerged in 1953. After a review of the immediate origins of the Holy Allian…