Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar (December 5, 1832 — March 26, 1921) was a Brazil

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ian lawyer

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 and diplomat

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, who served as the ambassador of Brazil in many occasions. He was the son of famous politician José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar, and the younger brother of famous novel

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ist José de Alencar

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José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani...

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Condecorated with the Military Order of Christ, the Order of Isabella the Catholic, the Order of the Rose

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 and the Order of Christ

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, he was a member of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute

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 and received the title of Baron

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 of Alencar in 1885, in a post that would last until the proclamation of Republic in Brazil, in 1889, when all the titles of nobility in Brazil were abolished.