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The Marquis of Pombal
Lynne Booker
PRIDE OF PLACE - Standing grandly atop a pillar in the centre of Lisbon, accompanied by a stone lion, stands the effigy of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, better known as the marquês de Pombal, a man whose impact has left to this day deep and enduring marks on this country.
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Pombal and Prince Henry the Navigator were similar because each did much to ensure that history would see him in a good light.
Within a decade of the Great Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Pombal had fostered a new historical tradition in which he was cast in the role of the great and omniscient benefactor who had averted God´s wrath and saved the King.
He was a man feared, reviled, cursed on the one hand, and admired and honoured as Portugal´s greatest statesman on the other. What was it about ´The Pasha´, as he was known to some, that encouraged such widely differing views?
50 years of relative obscurity
Born in 1699 into the obscure minor gentry, Pombal joined a
