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Pedro I was a fascinating individual. Liberal despite a poor education, he was the first Emperor of Brazil (while his father was King of Portugal), very briefly
by teruakohatu 4y ago
Pedro I was a fascinating individual. Liberal despite a poor education, he was the first Emperor of Brazil (while his father was King of Portugal), very briefly the King of Portugal and in the last few years of his life neither while traveling Europe advocating for his daughter and "borrowing" a ductal title from her.
- iksub 4y agopoor education?
- teruakohatu 4y agoAs a child he was unruly and did not enjoy being taught, he had the ability to dismiss his instructors at will. In other words, like any child but with a lot of power and a father who didn't intervene. He was painfully aware of his poor education, so much so that he wrote about it and others also commented on it. One of his naval Commander's wrote: "his good qualities were his own; his bad owing to want of education; and no man was more sensible of that defect than himself."