Tropical Versailles
Subtitle: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (New World in the Atlantic World)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 24, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415929882
First sentence: IN 1803 THE PORTUGUESE STATESMEN RODRIGO DE SOUZA COUTINHO, CHIEF OF the Royal Treasury, offered Prince Regent Dom Joao an evaluation of the European "political situation."