Guardian of memories: tales from a centenary Queen

Abstract

This article presents the life stories Zilda Maciel de Abreu Vicente, granddaughter Amélia Hartley de Brito Antunes Maciel, “Baroness off Three Serros.” Bringing considerations about his childhood and adolescence in the city of Pelotas in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Witness two turns of the century, Zilda, to 102 years old, rebuild parts of his career and his family in order to clarify facts about there presentations made about this enigmatic figure who was Baroness of Three Serros. The evocative memory is a key part in the process of remembering the centenary Queen, who has during the Belle Epoque main memories of his life in society, as the granddaughter of the Barons.