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JOSE FRANCISCO CORREA DA SERRA (1750-...

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CORREA DA SERRA (1750-1823)  , Portuguese politician and See also:man of See also:science, was See also:born at Serpa, in See also:Alemtejo, in 1750 . Educated at See also:Rome, he took orders under the See also:protection of the See also:duke of Alafoes, See also:uncle of See also:Mary I. of See also:Portugal . In 1777 he returned to See also:Lisbon, where he resided with his See also:patron, with whose assistance he founded the Portuguese See also:Academy of Sciences . Of this institution he was named perpetual secretary, and he received the See also:privilege of See also:publishing its trans-actions without reference to any See also:censor whatever . His use of this right brought him into conflict with the See also:Holy See also:Office; and 2 Nothing caused more offence to Liberal sentiment in See also:France after the Restoration than the spectacle of See also:King See also:Louis XVIII. walking and carrying a See also:candle in the procession through the streets of See also:Paris . I2 '94 consequently in 1786 he fled to France, and remained there till the See also:death of Pedro III., when he again took up his See also:residence with Alafoes . But having given a lodging in the See also:palace to a See also:French Girondist, he was forced to flee to See also:England, where he found a See also:protector in See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks, and became a member of the Royal Society . In 1797 he was appointed secretary to the Portuguese See also:embassy, but a See also:quarrel with the See also:ambassador drove him once more to Paris (18o2), and in that See also:city he resided till 1813, when he crossed over to New See also:York . In 1816 he was made Portuguese See also:minister-plenipotentiary at See also:Washington, and in 182o he was recalled See also:home, appointed a member of the See also:financial See also:council, and elected to a seat in the See also:Cortes . Three years after, and in the same See also:year with the fall of the constitutional See also:government, he died . See also:Correa da Serra ranks high as a botanist, though he published no See also:great See also:special See also:work . His See also:principal claim to renown is the Colec4ao de livros ineditos da historia Per/ugueza, (4 vols., 179o-1816), an invaluable selection of documents, exceedingly well edited .

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