Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo

Francisco Manuel Homem Christo (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.

His son was an admirer of Benito Mussolini and fascism. He died in Rome, in 1928, victim of an automobile accident.[2]

He is an ancestor of Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, one half of the electronic music duo Daft Punk.[3]

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  1. Biography note.
  2. Cláudio Correia d'Oliveira Guimarães (1956). "Homem Cristo Filho: um intelectual do Nacionalismo Lusíada". Gil Vicente (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  3. Delassus, Pauline (19 February 2014). "Bas les casques. Le vrai visage de Daft Punk - Paris Match" (in French). Paris Match. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
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