Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo Explained

Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo (8 March 1860 – 25 February 1943) was a Portuguese military and political republican. He was distinguished as one of the officers of the Portuguese Army involved in the events surrounding the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1891.^[1]

Accused of having betrayed the republican ideals in 1910, he found himself forced into exile in France.

He was the great-great-grandfather of Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, one half of the former electronic music duo Daft Punk.^[2]

Publications

• The events of January 31 and my imprisonment
• Pro-Patria
• Political banditry
• Letters from afar: I - Secondary education in Portugal and France
• Letters from afar: II - In defense of the instruction of the people
• Monarchists and Republicans
• Bolshevism in Russia
• Notes of my life and my time (7 volumes)

External link

• Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo, Faculty and Students from the First Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto

Notes and References

1. http://www.prof2000.pt/users/avcultur/aveirilustres/HomemCristo Biography note
2. Web site: Bas les casques. Le vrai visage de Daft Punk - Paris Match . Paris Match . Pauline . Delassus . 19 February 2014 . French . 2014-04-04.