Amnis (Sep 2005)
Une « dictature démocratique » : Getúlio Vargas, raconté par Jean-Gérard Fleury
Abstract
Business man, aviator, journalist and writer, Jean-Gérard Fleury (1905-2002) lived almost all his life in Brazil. In 1940, he published a short biography, the only one to this day in French, of the president Getulio Vargas; openly pictorially outlined in nature, this text offers a reading of the political trajectory of Vargas, which oscillates between democracy and authoritarianism. In fact, this biography tells us as much about Brazil as about France: it constructs an image of the Brazilian president, and at the same time witnesses the popular aspirations of a certain French political right trend between the two wars.
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