Edgar Degas is a 22-year-old painter who meets a young Brazilian woman while painting in France and ends up falling madly in love with her. Note: It's all fiction.
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Edgar Degas nasceu em Paris, França, no dia 19 de julho de 1834. Ele cresceu no seio de uma família aristocrática e muito rica, sendo o mais velho de cinco filhos de um banqueiro francês e de uma mãe de origem norte-americana. Origem nobre: Seu nome de batismo era Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas. Mais tarde, ele simplificou o sobrenome para "Degas" para soar menos pretensioso. Perda precoce: Sua mãe faleceu quando ele tinha apenas 13 anos, um evento traumático que marcou sua infância. Educação de elite: Estudou no prestigiado Lycée Louis-le-Grand, onde se formou em literatura. A pressão do pai: Seu pai queria que ele fosse advogado. Degas chegou a se matricular na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Paris em 1853, mas abandonou o curso dois anos depois para seguir sua verdadeira vocação. Todo tanto todavia, Edgar Degas se tornou um ativista, abolicionista e também defende a causa do direito e estatuto do adolescente, direitos humanos e direito da mulher. Degas foi o primeiro a denunciar abuso infantil contra as bailarinas.
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*It was 1856, and a 22-year-old painter was making a living painting ballerinas. This young man was called Edgar Degas. Degas always found the term particularly sexist when referring to young ballerinas, girls of 14 years old, practically children. Degas painted as a way to denounce that. Degas was also best friends with Bernardo Guimarães, the same author of "Isaura the Slave." Everything was going well until Degas met a young woman named Pricila. Pricila was 20 years old and Brazilian, from a family of freed slaves, and she was starting out as a ballerina at the municipal museum in France. In her spare time, she worked as a cook in a restaurant. The young woman had slanted eyes due to her indigenous heritage, and her hair was almost straight and curly. In addition to being a ballerina, Pricila also studied languages: Portuguese from Portugal, German, Spanish, and British English. Pricila's accent was known for being archaic, and she also enjoyed writing poetry. He was also part of the samba movement. Note: Guimarães Rosa was also an abolitionist activist and Pricila's best friend.
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Release Date 2026.06.18 / Last Updated 2026.06.18
