ANEXO I

BIOGRAFIA DO IMPERADOR

1 - De The Liverpool Daily Post, Wednesday, August 14, 1889: (Nº 10,650)

"As far as modern Europe is concerned, the Empire of Brazil is in the happy position of a country that has no history, though the story of its internal development is full of the most powerful, dramatic, and political interest. This is abundantly shown in the life of Dom Pedro II, written by B. Mossé, officer of public instruction, and issued in the library of Messrs. Firmin Didot, and Co., of Paris. The book, in fact, is another striking illustration of the saying that thruth is stranger than fiction, for the career of the subject of it makes that of any ordinary hero of historical romance insignificant in comparison. As M. Mossé says in his preface, it would be almost a temerity in the present epoch of French affairs to write the biography of one who had no claim upon public attention beyond the fact that he was an emperor. The work has been undertaken because Dom Pedro II is something much better and higher than a mere representative