Biografias transgressoras: Manoel de Oliveira Lima e D. Luís de Orléans e Bragança

The Integralism of Plínio Salgado: Luso-Brazilian Relations

“…77 The relation of proximity between the two political processes is evident: 78 79 However, this research does not claim that the Brazilian integralist movement embraced a defence of monarchism, like its Lusitanian counterpart, although in the 1920s it maintained good relations with the monarchical regime. 82 [was based on the Portuguese monarchy and more precisely on Afonso Henriques, the founder of the Portuguese nationality and associated with a prophecy, itself disseminated by Integralismo Lusitano, that on the lineage of this character would be established a great Empire, a time of unparalleled progress of the Catholic nation. In a lecture delivered on 23 May 1937, 80 in Rio de Janeiro, he criticized federalism in defence of the Integral State and condemned the regime of Dom Pedro II on account of its centralization of political power in the Emperor: the 'poder pessoal do Monarca era nocivo' [personal power of the Monarch was harmful].…”