Pedro II of Brazil

On Sunday, June 25th, the electrical instruments were to be shown to the judges.

Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, Sir William Thompson, the greatest electrical scientist at that time in the world, and other famous people were to be there.

Mr. Hubbard was anxious that Bell should go to Philadelphia and exhibit his instruments himself, but Bell, because of his schoolwork, refused to go.

Then Mr. Hubbard took an unfair advantage of me, says Bell.

That meant that they would never see the telephone.

I could only stay that Sunday, and I felt that my whole exhibit was cut out.

The judges began to disperse when suddenly Emperor Dom Pedro saw me and recognized me as the young man whom he had met in Boston when he visited the school for the deaf and dumb.

He came up to me and said, Mr.

Dedication.

To His Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro de Alcântara, Dom Pedro II, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of the Brazil.

To the man rather than the monarch, this version of a poem so dear to the heart of every Brazilian is offered by His Imperial Majesty's most obedient humble servant, the translator.

Il fare un libro e meno che niente, se il libro fatto non rifalla gente.

See, during the war against Napoleon, the Portuguese royal family had evacuated Lisbon and ruled their empire from exile in Rio de Janeiro.

When the war ended and they returned to Europe, the crown prince, Pedro I, remained in Brazil and declared himself emperor, establishing the Empire of Brazil in 1822.

Brazil would have some minor border spats with its neighbors over the years, and the southern state of Uruguay would split off into its own country in 1822.

But other than that, the remains of Portugal's American Empire have remained relatively stable ever since.

Later journeys will take him across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States, where he described asking a pilot on the Chesapeake River if he spoke French.

The man responded in English, "No, I only speak American." Francois will cross the Atlantic on many more occasions, including a return to Brazil in 1843 to marry Princess Francisca, the sister of the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, and a trip to the island of Saint Helena that we will discuss in a future episode.

Besides his naval adventures, Francois also had a passion for art, like his sister Marie.

Whereas Marie became a sculptor of note, Francois' medium was watercolors.

But, you know, Brazil had slavery for a very long time, even longer than the US didn't didn't end until 1888.

And there was this guy named Pedro II who was the emperor of Brazil.

And he was off on a – he loved to go to Europe.

He was a big traveler.

We could even do an episode on Pedro II's travels.

And when he was gone, his daughter signed this law abolishing slavery, Princess Isabel.

And when he returned via boat to Rio, these students from the military school – and there's still a military installation right below Sugarloaf that you can see.

Yeah, they didn't fool around with the monarchy.

Positivism spread within the army, and with it a growing skepticism toward the nation's monarchy.

Then, on November 15th, 1889, Army Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca led a coup overthrowing Emperor Pedro II and establishing the first Brazilian Republic.

But positivist efforts to improve Brazilian society largely fell flat.

The provisional government that followed enacted economic reforms aimed at deflating a financial bubble that had been growing under the previous regime, but these made the problems worse, leading to runaway inflation and eventually a nationwide economic collapse.

don't know.

It is named after Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil.

It features a grand star-shaped rosette of wide leathery leaves that grow up to five feet wide and long.

Star-shaped five.