Pailler, Jean

Jean Pailler fell in love with Portugal during the Revolution, of which he wrote a first-hand account. His enthusiasm for Eca de Queiroz made him study the last years of the Portuguese monarchy. His biographical essay about Dom Carlos I has been acclaimed in Portugal when it was translated by Julio Conrado. It was but natural that he took interest in the strange adventures of Maria Pia, who posed as the King's adulterous daughter. A fiction writer as well as an history buff, Pailler has been fascinated by the characters of Maria Pia and her Brazilian mother, that he used as material for two no...