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Eça de Queiroz

Died in 1900

José Maria de Eça de Queirós was born in Póvoa de Varzim on 25 November 1845, the natural son of a magistrate, and was raised at his grandparents' home near Aveiro. A law graduate of Coimbra in 1866, he was a journalist and, in 1871, one of the lecturers at the Lisbon Casino. Having entered the consular service, he served in Havana from 1872, then in England, at Newcastle and Bristol, and was appointed to Paris in 1888. He died in Neuilly on 16 August 1900.

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