Hábitos y condecoraciones ¿Unos instrumentos para la vertebración de la clase política?

Our purpose is to contextualise the demand of habits of military orders in late Old Regime Spain and Portugal. To disentangle the question from a nobiliary perspective which we suspect has been unduly inflated, we determine the factors which laid behind a similar process, taken in a different context: the demand of decoration expressed by the French colonial society of Tunisia at the beginning of the XXth Century. Such a study stresses the central paper of factors which Iberian historiographies usually do not take into account.