page_title: Monarchism in Brazil
section_title: Famous monarchists
hierarchical_section_title: Monarchism in Brazil / Famous monarchists
context_page_description: The movement for the re-adoption of monarchy in Brazil has taken place as a series of uprisings and political acts, usually in a fragmented way and peripherally to larger causes. It has been important historically and remains an fast-growing active movement to this day. It advocates restoration of the constitutional monarchy under the House of Orléans-Braganza, a cadet branch of the House of Braganza, which ruled Brazil for 67 years until the monarchy was abolished in 1889 by a military coup d'état.
context_section_description: Many famous personalities in Brazil have declared themselves convicted monarchists.
  Among the most famous names are Machado de Assis, Joaquim Nabuco, Baron of Rio Branco, André Rebouças, Viscount of Taunay, João Camilo de Oliveira Torres, Carlos de Laet and Count of Mota Maia. Some royalists, however, were victims of the republican regime. Among them is José da Costa Azevedo, the Baron of Ladario, who was shot by an unknown marksman for resisting an arrest warrant during 15 November, surviving only because a student, Carlos Vieira Ferreira, rescued him.
  Another little known case is the murder of Colonel Gentil de Castro during the Canudos War. Owner of the monarchist newspapers Gazeta da Tarde and Gazeta da Liberdade, he was shot by unknown attackers in Rio de Janeiro.
  A list of some notable monarchists by date of birth:
caption: Eduardo Prado was a journalist and staunch monarchist who wrote, in 1893, A Ilusão Americana ("American Illusion"), criticising republicans and American imperialism. It was the first literary work to be censored by the newly established republic.
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