Born Today:

José Maria de Eça de Queirós 

1845 - 1900

“Let us depart instead for the fields of dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!” 

― José Maria Eça de Queirós, The Mandarin and Other Stories 

À la Chinoise

L'Art de Savoir-Vivre

"Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!"

by Eça de Queiróz