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The Marquis of Pombal
Lynne Booker
PRIDE OF PLACE - Standing grandly atop a pillar in the centre of Lisbon, accompanied by a stone lion, stands the effigy of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, better known as the marquês de Pombal, a man whose impact has left to this day deep and enduring marks on this country.
Camisola benfica marques de pombal biography
Pombal and Prince Henry the Navigator were similar because each did much to ensure that history would see him in a good light.
Within a decade of the Great Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Pombal had fostered a new historical tradition in which he was cast in the role of the great and omniscient benefactor who had averted God´s wrath and saved the King.
He was a man feared, reviled, cursed on the one hand, and admired and honoured as Portugal´s greatest statesman on the other. What was it about ´The Pasha´, as he was known to some, that encouraged such widely differing views?
50 years of relative obscurity
Born in 1699 into the obscure minor gentry, Pombal joined a