Un numéro inédit de Secrets d’Histoire consacré à l’empereur Pedro II du Brésil sera diffusé le jeudi 8 août 2019 à 21 h 05 sur France 2. Stéphane Bern évoquera la vie du dernier empereur du Bresil, un homme cultivé, curieux et ouvert, ami de Victor Hugo et de Louis Pasteur.
Secrets d’Histoire vous emmènera au coeur du Palais de Pétropolis, cité impériale où flotte encore l’âme du dernier empereur de la dynastie des Bragance.
Le même soir à 23 h 10, France 2 rediffusera le numéro de Secrets d’Histoire consacré au Roi Louis-Philippe et à la Reine Marie-Amélie avec la participation du prince Jean, actuel comte de Paris. (Merci à Anne et Charles)
6 août 2019 @ 08:05
Je regarderai.
Merci pour l’info.
6 août 2019 @ 09:22
Merci pour cet article culturel et historique à la fois !
6 août 2019 @ 09:29
Ces barbes de l’époque, quelle horreur….!
6 août 2019 @ 10:04
Je ne manquerai pas cette émission, trop rare que l’on parle de cet empereur.
6 août 2019 @ 10:23
Deux émissions à ne pas manquer
6 août 2019 @ 11:19
Mais elles sont hélas de retour sur les hipsters, ces artistes pseudo-bohèmes et on en voit aussi chez les sportifs . Ce doit être extrêmement pratique au tennis , plus besoin de bracelet pour s’éponger .
6 août 2019 @ 12:13
Ce sont surtout de sacrés nids à microbes. Je déteste cela.
7 août 2019 @ 11:47
Je n’ose y penser , on connaît les murs végétaux,voici la barbe habitée .
6 août 2019 @ 11:58
Après un voyage en Suisse, voici comme le décrit la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel : « cultivé et philosophe, très influencé par les idées positivistes d’Auguste Comte, l’empereur lui-même doutait parfois de sa fonction ».
6 août 2019 @ 12:19
Par la suite , l’émission passera sur la 3 !
6 août 2019 @ 16:11
Je regarderai volontiers si je pouvais enlever Stéphane Bern de ce documentaire
7 août 2019 @ 13:38
Tout a fait d’accord avec vous Martine. Cet animateur soi disant l’ami de toutes les têtes couronnées d’Europe me donne de l’urticaire rien qu’en entendant sa voix.
9 août 2019 @ 13:16
Sans Stéphane Bern l’émission n’existerait pas et au demeurant il y a beaucoup d’intervenants dans cette émission.
6 août 2019 @ 21:58
Une émission a ne pas manquer sur un prince que personnellement je connais peu.
7 août 2019 @ 13:38
Ascendance, parenté et descendance sur https://gothanjou.blog/2019/08/07/secrets-dhistoire-pedro-ii-le-dernier-empereur-du-bresil/
7 août 2019 @ 20:34
Sur Pedro II on peut lire :
voir : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261638.Citizen_Emperor
Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891
by Roderick J. Barman
In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. Called to the throne in 1840 at the age of 14, Pedro II devoted himself for the next half century to transforming Brazil into a functioning nation-state, applying “all my forces and all my devotion to assuring the progress and prosperity of my people.” This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II’s diaries and family papers.
Resourceful, patient, cautious, and above all persevering, Pedro II acquired undisputed control of public affairs and was indispensable in establishing Brazil’s viability as a nation. By his personal character, behavior, and interests, he created a model of citizenship that commanded acceptance at home and respect abroad. A friend of Longfellow, Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he was the first foreign head of state to visit the United States.
By the 1880s, the rising generation had so internalized the model of Pedro II that it greatly resembled him in outlook and culture. Ironically, his success was such that the ruling circles took Brazil’s existence as a nation for granted and viewed him as old-fashioned and irrelevant to the nation’s needs. In effect, he had made himself redundant. Unable to change his ways of ruling, weakened by illness, and increasingly marginal to public affairs, he was overthrown by a military coup in 1889. Exiled to Europe, he died in Paris two years later.
This volume reveals how the political and the personal intertwined to make Pedro II the person he was. Many facets of his character appear innate—his great energy and his love of books and learning, for example—but his personality was also shaped by a privileged background, painful childhood experiences, and convoluted relationships with his parents, siblings, wife, and children. He was remarkably self-centered, with a distrust of intimacy that left him emotionally deprived. He worked alone, and his principal advisors were never human beings but books.
A man of monumental restraint and iron self-discipline, Pedro II took great care in speech and writing to reveal little of his inner self. These defenses once penetrated, as in this book, we encounter a complex personality who simultaneously compels sympathy, exasperation, and respect.
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Une critique de l’ouvrage
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0804735107/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_fr-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1642&creative=6746
All the praise expressed for this meticulously researched book is fully justified, in my opinion as an Englishman having lived in Brazil for almost ten years (as well as being the author of a book on the subject)during the sixties and eighties of the last century. I would unconditionally recommend it to readers who have good basic knowledge of the country and its peculiar culture, but, for those who don’t, I believe they should first read something that provides a more general picture and feel of the place, as well as a more « popular » sort of biography of Pedro himself. Barman’s opus provides an enormous amount of detailed information about the Emperor Pedro II, and the political situation of the times is brilliantly analyzed. But his portrait tends to be stripped of cultural context. The result is that Pedro could be anywhere on earth, in Brazil, Paraguay or even 19th century Greece, whereas Brazil’s culture is compelling and totally original. As I respectfully remarked to the author himself, you might think that Pedro lived in a vacum, as if he were Einstein or Beethoven, even though his intellectually rather second-rate mind hardly deserves such an honour. Most of all, the names of many illustrious, disgraceful and highly colourful figures closely associated with him are often given without any background information, which I think is a great pity. In Brazil Pedro is famous for his international and intellectual « friendships » with Pasteur, Charcot, Victor Hugo and even Darwin, as well as (but to a lesser extent) the notorious Father of Modern Racialism Gobineau, who was posted to the French Embassy in Rio and « accidentally » became his life-long friend. But not enough attention is paid to them, especially to the ones less known to the general public.
However, it is, as I said at the beginning, a magnificent portrait of the man and a reference work of truly impressive proportions. I lived and breathed my hero Pedro II as if I had been his personal butler(and as Sartre said, « no man is great for his valet »).
*****
Dans l’ouvrage il est aussi question de sa grande passion Luísa Margarida de Barros Portugal ( 1816 – 1891),comtesse de Barral
voir :https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADsa_Margarida_de_Barros_Portugal
9 août 2019 @ 13:18
Merci infiniment cher Dominique.
8 août 2019 @ 09:57
Le plus grand homme d’ État que nous avons eu au Brasil!!
Merci Stephane Berg
8 août 2019 @ 13:35
Bern, Nauplia, Bern !
Il est capable de développer une jaunisse si vous écorchez son nom…
10 août 2019 @ 22:25
Apparemment, vous le connaissez bien. 😀
11 août 2019 @ 11:05
J’ignorais tout de cet empereur,ce que j’ai vu m’a fait apprécier l’homme .