"I became intelligent when I went to Brazil."
"It is the same civilization that Europe, but not in the same age. It was indeed Brazil that allowed to arrive me to a certain conception of the history that would not have reached if it had stayed around Mediterranean. "
These are Fernad Braudel's words. The French historian taught in Brazil in the period 1935/1937. His stay in Brazil deserved an encouraged study called FERNAND BRAUDEL E O BRASIL - VIVÊNCIA E BRASILIANISMO (1935/1937), of Luis Corrêa Lima (
http://www.edusp.com.br/detlivro.asp?ID=411571), without translation.
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