The french in Brazil: the ideas from the 19th century, habits and customs in Pernambuco province (1840-1850)

  • Marcilia Rosa Periotto
Keywords: Louis Léger Vauthier, Pernambuco, Education, Brazil – 19 th Century

Abstract

This is a study about the French presence in Brazil during the first half of the 19th century. Among the notable French found in the history of Pernambuco is Louis Léger Vauthier, a French engineer who arrived in Recife in 1840, hired by the president Francisco do Rego Barros to modernize the capital of the province. During his time in Brazil, Vauthier registered in a diary his impressions collected from observations of the province everyday life, the expectations in relation to the inhospitable land and the moments of discomfort before such a stubborn simple life, not to say a petty life. This work was posthumously titled The Personal Diary of the Engineer  Vauthier. The document provides  a detailed account of Recife social life, and more generally, it communicates the existing relations in the Brazilian Empire, still surrounded by the colonial heritage, besides drawing a detailed picture on the way of living and acting of the lower social strata, that is, of free and poor men and of slaves, freed or not. It is a study developed from the perspective of the history of education in that it aims to demonstrate that the presence of Vauthier in Pernambuco contributed to the adoption of civilized habits then required by the local elite, who saw the French manners as an ideal model of education.

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Author Biography

Marcilia Rosa Periotto
Graduação em Pedagogia na Universidade Estadual de Maringá (1986), mestrado em Educação na Universidade Federal de São Carlos (1993) e doutorado em Educação na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2001). É professora não-titular da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Tem experiência na área de Educação, com ênfase em História da Educação e Sociologia da Educação, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: educação, imprensa, desenvolvimento social, progresso e nação. É Pós-Doutora pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, com supervisão do professor Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho e bolsa CNPq.
Published
2012-09-10
How to Cite
Periotto, M. R. (2012). The french in Brazil: the ideas from the 19th century, habits and customs in Pernambuco province (1840-1850). Teoria E Prática Da Educação, 15(1), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.4025/tpe.v15i1.18574
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