Reminiscences of an Empire in exile: the Castelo d'Eu and the trajectories of a collection between Brazil and France

• Grant number: 22/16121-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: May 29, 2023
• End date: March 06, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto
• Grantee: Carlos Rogerio Lima Junior
• Supervisor: Monica Raisa Schpun
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/09614-8 - The exhibition of nostalgia: the artistic and historical artifacts of Brazil in imperial exile (1889-1975), BP.PD

Abstract

The aim of this project, an integral part of our postdoctoral investigation entitled "The exhibition of nostalgia: artistic and historical artifacts from Brazil in imperial exile (1889-1975)", process 2021/09614-8, is to research the trajectory of artistic and historical objects sent from Brazil to France in 1891, at the request of the imperial family itself, which was in exile. The aim is to understand the disputes that involved the preservation of these objects from the palaces of Rio de Janeiro in France French, during three different moments: 1) while the Castle served as a home for Princess Isabel and the Count d'Eu in exile, when there was the disposal of the imperial collection with a view to evoking and affirming a supposedly luxurious past of that banished family (1905-1922); 2) the backstage of the conflicting negotiation between the entrepreneur Assis Chateaubriand, the city hall of the city of Eu and the descendants of the Orleans and Bragança family on the occasion of the sale of the property in 1952, converted by Chateaubriand into the headquarters of a society dedicated to the study of the history of the Brazil; 3) the procedures for the repatriation to Brazil of historical paintings, portraits, flags and other historical objects, shortly after the Municipality of Eu acquired the Castle from businessman Assis Chateaubriand, in 1962. With the death of Assis Chateaubriand, in 1968, his emissaries returned to Eu and looked for the last belongings that remained there, and that by decision of the businessman himself, they should return to Brazil. The guiding question of this research is how the transits/displacements made possible new appropriations and re-significations of these artistic and historical objects referring to the construction of the memory of the Empire during the republican period and the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. (AU)