Word: alcoforado
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...authors have taken the thematic framework of the book from the story of a 17th-century nun, Mariana Alcoforado. Sent to a convent at the age of 16 because her parents could not afford to provide her with a dowry, she was seduced and impregnated by a dashing French cavalier, who then abandoned her and returned to France with Napoleon's army. Mariana poured out her love and her bitterness in a series of five letters addressed to her seducer--the original Portuguese Letters, which were published in Paris...
...great triumvirate (the others: President Getulio Vargas, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha), Goes Monteiro was a leader, with Vargas and Aranha, of the 1930 revolution. In 1931 he was appointed Minister of War. He became Brazil's Chief of Staff in 1937. His successor, General Eduardo Guedes Alcoforado, is neither so astute nor so politically ambitious as Goes Monteiro. The Brazilian Army, which wants to fight, and the increasingly belligerent Brazilian people hoped that General Alcoforado would lead them soon, somewhere, into contact with the Axis, and that he would be as good a soldier as their old chief...
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