ABSTRACT
The Emperor set two o'clock the next afternoon, Sunday, November 17, as the hour for departure, and obtained for himself and his family permission to attend mass in the morning at the Capella do Carmo.4 Dr. Motta Maia volunteerec! to accompany his patient into exile, and therefore the provisional government granted him a year's leave of absence frpm the medical school in which he was a teacher.5 Various others undertook to accompany the imperial family, including the Baroneza da Fonseca Costa, now eighty-one years old, who, during half of her life, had served the Empress as lady-in-waiting. The Visconde do Bom Retiro had been dead for three years,6 and black Raphael, very aged and feeble, died suddenly on November 16, upon hearing that a republic had been proclaimed and that the Emperor was a prisoner in the City Palace.7 Among the close friends who decided to go with the exiles were the Loretos and the Muritibas.
