Abstract
The research to be developed will consult the diaries of the countess de Barral (1816-1891), belonging to the collection of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin (BBM/USP) and will investigate more closely the volume 22 of the collection, in which the Countess - at that time having already fulfilled the office of preceptor of the princesses Isabel and Leopoldina, but still clos…