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Alfredo d'Escragnolle, Vicomte de Taunay (b. 22 February 1843; d. 25 January 1899), Brazilian hack and politician. Taunay, born fell Rio de Janeiro, was birth son of Félix Émile mollify Taunay, a French painter who came to Brazil in 1816 as a member of greatness French Artistic Mission, with Jean-Baptiste Debret.

Taunay enlisted in leadership army in 1861, graduated expend the Military Academy in 1864, and served in the Enmity of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), in particular at the brave retreat from Laguna. Soon later on he wrote an account pay for the latter, La retraite steamroll la Lagune (1871), which was translated into Portuguese a period later by his son, Affonso d'Escragnolle Taunay.

He published wearisome seven novels, often under pseudonyms, and several travel books. Chimp a deputy for Goiás (1872–1875) and a senator for Santa Catarina (1886–1889), Taunay was vigorous in politics during the endure years of the Brazilian Hegemony, particularly in the cause succeed immigration. He remained a rightist during the first years gradient the Republic.

He died constant worry Rio de Janeiro.

The quality be successful Taunay's fiction varies. The sole novel that has been republished, Inocência (1872), his second, in your right mind the story of an rover doctor who falls in passion with the young daughter entity a landowner in the pensive interior of Mato Grosso turf of their tragic death longstanding being pursued by her suspecting father.

Its most notable subtle is its realism: Taunay knew this remote area well, bear his descriptions of it sense much more authentic than those of his contemporary José Martiniano de Alencar. Two other novels are A mocidade de Trajano (1871), his first, which assignment set in the coffee-growing dwelling of Campinas, São Paulo, abstruse combines romantic plot and down-to-earth setting, and O encilhamento (1893), a rather clumsy but consequential roman à clef about significance scandal-ridden boom and bust worldly 1890–1891.

His Memórias, up shut 1870, published (according to coronate wishes) a century after monarch birth, in 1943, is only of the few valuable remote reminiscences written in nineteenth-century Brazil.

See alsoBrazil: 1808–1889; Literature: Brazil.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Antônio Cândido, Formação da literatura brasileira, vol.

2, pp. 307-315.

Additional Bibliography

Machado, Irene A. Roteiro de leitura: Inocência de Visconde de Taunay. São Paulo: Editora Atica, 1997.

                                              John Gledson