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The meeting between Dom Pedro II and the writer Victor Hugo
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The meeting between Dom Pedro II and the writer Victor Hugo

Since his first trip to Europe, Emperor Dom Pedro II had wanted to meet the writer and staunch republican Victor Hugo, but the great writer’s isolation and the emperor’s previous travel schedule did not cooperate. On his new visit to Europe, with the famous writer once again established in Paris,

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The wealth of Emperor Dom Pedro II
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The wealth of Emperor Dom Pedro II

Emperor Dom Pedro II, during his reign from 1831 to 1889, was a prominent figure in the country’s history. His personal wealth was not primarily associated with an exorbitant material fortune, but rather with a vast cultural, intellectual, and emotional richness.

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