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 My presence with it at the military review at Longchamps, on July 14, 1903, caused an immense success.

It was the most popular of all my... children. Only later supplanted by the tiny "Demoiselle".

Then... I would hear these kinds of complaints: "Don't you do anything?" "You're always locked in your room, sleeping!"

In the meantime, I came to Brazil; in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas and the Northern States, where I passed, my countrymen welcomed me with the most captivating parties that I will never forget and that they gave me so much.

During my hours of intense joy and happy successes, only one longing made me sad: it was the absence of my Father. He who had given me such good advice and the means to realize my dream, was no longer in this world to see that I "had become a man".

It is an oriental custom to blame all the merit, all the glory that a man conquers in life,