Every story that starts with "once upon a time" has a king and a queen And Brazil has already had King Dom João VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina Latest news! The fat king and the mustached queen were not caricature March 8, 1808 The sun was rising radiantly in the Guanabara Bay while people could see around fourty vessels getting in the bay Fourty vessels. Eight ships, five frigates, three ketches and several merchant ships.
They brought something about 10 thousand people. It was a drifting empire. A floating kingdom.
The nobility the administrative class from Portugal arriving to suck the open veins from Latrine America Ops, not! This is the other one. .
. Open veins from Brazil. Man, this is the history of the arrival of the royal family in Rio de Janeiro.
This history has already been told a lot of times, has already became a bestseller book, has already became a horrible movie responsible for the recapture of brazilian cinema. But somehow, I don't know why this history is not told exactly the way it should be. When the royal family leaves Lisbon, they do it because they didn't have any choice.
It's obvious, it's evident. Napoleon's war machine, associated with the army capable to beat the Prussian army, gest closer quickly to Portugal, although the troops commanded by General Junot, who was a French general who had already been ambassador of France to Portugal. When this poorly armed, poorly fed and poorly equiped troop gets closer to Lisbon, the Portuguese court, whose prince regent was the future Dom João VI, and whose queen was Dona Maria very appropriately surnamed Dona Maria, the mad.
Cause she was mad. They realized that there were no way to keep themselves in Portugal besides as prisoner. So they immediately board in ships that already were, that already had been required by the court, and were anchored in the Restelo harbor, at the Tagus River, where Pedro Alvares Cabral had left 308 years before, whence all the expeditions to colonize Brazil had left.
These ships leave to the New World. It's a new moment begining not only in Brazil's history, but somehow Latin America's and the whole humanity's too because for the very first time in history an European royal blood monarch was not only coming to the New World but was settling in the New World. The court's first impression on Rio de Janeiro and the Rio de Janeiro's impression on the court were complete estrangement, because most women landing in Brazil had their heads shaved because there was a louse epidemic in the ships wich forced them to shave their hair.
Many cortesans and high society women from Rio thought that was fashionable in Europe and they either shaved their own hair or started using headscarfs just like the Portuguese ladies. On the other side the landing Portuguese thought and conclude that Rio de Janeiro was, and endeed it was, the dirtiest city on the planet because Rio de Janeiro nowadays we have this marvelous and beautiful image and Rio de Janeiro has always been beautiful and marvelous. The physical landscape, the physical geography in Rio de Janeiro.
Because the human and urban geography in Rio de Janeiro were horrible, filthy. There were open-air sewage. Nowadays they don't have it anymore, specially in Baixada Fluminense.
But it was a dangerous, tough and dirty place, that is, very different from nowadays Rio de Janeiro. And that landing astonishes them, specially in Carlota Joaquina that never liked her husband Dom João. They got married when they were about ten, twelve yeas old and the wedding night is a disaster.
Carloa Joaquina bites Dom João's ear and almost takes it off. Dom João himself was almost a caricature. He was really ugly.
His faces appeared from a lot of wrinkles. And man, he had been badly diagrammed but they, both Carlota and Dom João, pass through history victimized by their physical characteristics which don't indicate the true reality of the facts. Dom João has done a lot for Brazil.
Dom João has improved Rio de Janeiro a lot, Dom João has been a progressist force and has transformed Brazil not only in united kingdom do Portugal, changing the whole Brazil's colonial state, but has given us the Jardim Botânico, the Biblioteca Nacional. He has brought the French mission. And Carlota Joaquina, who also passes through history as a witch, limp, ugly, mustached woman, and indeed she was kind of a witch, limp and mustached woman, she passes through history as a complete enemy of Brazil, and indeed she was, but it was in a very different context.
She was Spanish Portugal and Spain have always been opponents. Spain had submitted to the napoleonic game. So there was in Carlota Joaquina's mind an imperial vision of becoming the queen of the Platine vice-kingdom, which is related to the Cisplatin Province, which is related to Argentina and somehow even to Peru.
So she was acting acorddingly to a geopolitical vision that, from her perspective, was correct. Beyond all, Carlota Joaquina. One: she used to smoke diamba, as it was known marijuana; Two: she used to take a shower naked at the Flamengo beach; Three: she used to love to have sex, specially with a black man.
That is, a woman who has sex, takes a shower naked ans smokes marijuana, we cannot keep bad-mouthing her all the time, right? For the love of God, there must have been something good. Dom João himself, who never stood Carlota very much, it was a facade wedding which they had to keep, Dom João would be father only of Dom Pedro, who would become Dom Pedro I.
Carlota Joaquina despised Dom Pedro. Dom Pedro spent his whole life searching for his mother's love and never had it, indeed one of the many bar psychoanalysis theory is that the fact that he had had endless women, the bar psychology indicates that it was because he never had his mother's love, which he has always searched e had little of his father's love too, although his father planned a complete strategic vision that would make him the first imperor of Brazil when Dom João is forced to go back to Portugal after his staying here in Brazil, by the way the period in which he lived in Brazil, very productive to Brazil, was paid by Portugal, right? That's ok, Brazil produced a lot of income, but a lot of the court's money And a lot of the money generated in Portugal was sent to Brazil to keep the court living here in the tropics while the Portuguese were there without their king under the command of an english marshal Beresford, who by the way had kicked out Junot, who took Portugal from Portugal.
So, kids, there are a king, a queen, there is a court, there is almost a sleeping ugliness, the sleeping beauty too and here is the deal it's time to wake up because the only way to build a contry is knowing history. And this is the history we have been telling here at Não Vai Cair no ENEM. Bye, see you next time.
What you have just seen is full of generalizations and simplifications, but that was indeed the general picture. Now if you want to know how things really happened so you'll have to read.
