Acknowledgments
Firstly, I would like to thank the Bosch Company for having granted me access to their collection, in their headquarters in Stuttgart, where I found the first documents that made me started this research. The institutional support I received in Brazil was crucial in bringing the research to fruition. I would especially like to thank Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) for all the academic and funding support, especially the PhD Program in History, the Instituto de Estudos Avançados/IEAT, and the Reitoria. I received public funds at different moments to support my research, I would especially thank CNPq, CAPES, Fapemig, and Faperj.
I would like to thank the Odebrecht Group and the Jury of the 2011 edition of the Odebrecht Historical Research Prize Clarival do Prado Valadares for having embraced and funded this project; and the Jury of Human Science of the 2013 Jabuti Award, sponsored by Câmara Brasileira do Livro, Elias Thomé Saliba, and Luiz Mott, to grant the award to the Brazilian first edition of O Mapa que inventou o Brasil. Also the translators Sabrina Gledhill, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, and Eoin OâNeill, who in different moments helped me to translate the book into English.
Abroad, I was able to count on some institutions and colleagues who welcomed me, allowing the research to reach the international scope necessary to achieve the goals I set myself, as I ventured to cross the destinies of a Portuguese ambassador and a French cartographer, in a European world much more globalized than one might expect. In 2007, I obtained a visiting research fellowship at the Newberry Library, granted by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the Study of Cartography, where I would especially like to thank James Ackerman. In 2009 and 2017, I was welcomed as a visiting researcher at the Ãcole des Hautes Ãtudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). There, I was able to count on the invaluable welcome and friendship of Serge Gruzinski, Cláudia Damasceno Fonseca, Carmen Bernand, Louise Benat-Tachot, Carmen Salazar-Soler, Catarina Madeira Santos, and Eloi Fiquet. In Lisbon, where I was a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, I thank Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro. In Stanford University where I received the Cátedra Joaquim Nabuco de Estudos Brasileiros in 2012, I would like to thank the Center for Latin American Studies, and the historians Herbert Klein and Karen Wigën and Barry Ruderman and Katherine Parker who invited me to present my work at the Barry Ruderman Conferences.
I would like to thank all the staff at the libraries and archives where I went looking for clues about D. Luis da Cunha and dâAnville, in the persons of ambassador Ãlvaro da Costa Franco, from the Arquivo Histórico do Itamaraty; Maria Dulce de Faria, from the Fundação Biblioteca National; Helène Richard and Catherine Hofmann, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Margarida Lages and Manuel Côrte-Real, from the Arquivo do Ministério Estrangeiro de Portugal; Maria Joaquina Esteves Feijáo and Conceição Chambel, from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal; and Helena Greco, from the Sociedade Geographica de Lisboa; also the Museum of Versalhes, Bosch Company, Biblioteca Guita e José Mindlin/USP, for authorizing the reproduction of the images and maps that illustrate this book.
The colleagues and friends who have contributed in some way with suggestions, documents, support, invitations to discuss this research in seminars and publications, or friendship are precious and countless. At the risk of forgetting some, I would like to thank Neil Safier and Iris Kantor, special friends and map lovers, Eddy Stols, LuÃs Felipe de Alencastro, André Ferrand de Almeida, Jorge Pimentel Cintra, Mary Pedley, Hal Langfur, Matthew Edney, João Carlos Garcia, Diogo Ramada Curto, Jean-Marc Besse, Chet Van Duzer, Zsolt G. Török, Sergueï Karp, Carla Lois, Mauricio Onetto Pavez, Catherine Delano-Smith, Carme Montaner, Wolbert Smith, Marie-Noelle Bourguet, Charlotte de Castelnau-LâEstoile, Lucien Bély, Andrea Doré, Jordana Dym, Mirela Altic, Stuart Schwartz, J.B. Shank, Maria Fernanda Bicalho, Maria de Fátima Gouvêa (in memory), João Fragoso, Gabriel Paquette, Fernando Bouza, Pedro Cardim, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Sebastián DÃaz Ãngel, Marie-Thérèse Mandroux-França, Roberta Stumpf, Laurent Vidal, Ronaldo Vainfas, Rodrigo Bentes, Márcia Menendes Motta, Heloisa Meireles Gesteira, LuÃs Miguel Carolino, Pedro Marinho, Thomas Werner, Eddy Stols, Pedro Cardim, Antônio Gilberto Costa, Friedrich E. Renger, Márcia Maria Duarte Santos, Katia Queirós Matoso, Rákóczi István, Maria Emilia Madeira Santos, Abilio Diniz Silva, Anna Canas Delgado Martins, Isabel Ferreira da Mota, Ãngela Domingues, Eliana Dutra, Regina Horta Duarte, Luiz Carlos Villalta, Mauro Condé, José Newton Coelho Meneses, Andre Luis Pereira Miatello, HeloÃsa Maria Murguel Starling, LÃgia Beatriz de Paula Germano, Eduardo França Paiva, Vanicléia Silva Santos, ValquÃria Ferreira da Silva, Carmem Marques Rodrigues Maria Leônia Chaves, Francisco Eduardo de Andrade, Ronaldo Pereira de Jesus, Andréa Lisly Gonçalves, Ãlvaro Antunes Rodrigues, and Patricia Kauark Leite also for all her care.
Last but not least, I would like to thank my family, who in one way or another shared in the construction of this book, my husband Lucas, my daughters Clara and Alice, my son-in-law, Lucas Henrique, and my grandson Otto.