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Portuguese politician (1871?1955)
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho, 18th Count of Azevedo
GCC
,
GCA
(12 November 1871?27 June 1955), was a Portuguese
naval officer
, politician and professor, at the
University of Coimbra
and later the Escola Naval (Naval School).
[1]
He was a member of the Portuguese
Democratic Party
and served as the
President of the Council of Ministers
(Prime Minister) for 7th government of the First
Portuguese Republic
(having led the country between 12 December 1914 and 25 January 1915). His government's composition was essentially made up of second-line political figures, and his government was jokingly referred to as "
Os miseraveis de Victor Hugo
" ("The miserables of Victor Hugo"), a play on the French author
Victor Hugo
's book
Les Miserables
.
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