On November 15th 1889, the last empire of the Americas fell. Victim of a military coup, the Orléans and Bragança family was exiled to France. The Countess d’Eu, with her husband, the Count of Eu, and their three young sons, Pedro, Luis and Antônio, left their dream of a Third Empire in Brazil. In Europe, they had to face and adapt to economic difficulties and much more: the life of the decadent French nobility in France; the secularization of society;militarized education steeped in radical Catholicism for the princes. But they also traveled a lot from India to the United States. These experiences coincided with unsuccessful attempts at monarchist resistance and the Restoration. Tensions between parents and children grew. Faced with authoritarian parents who wanted to decide the fate of their children, the sons reacted in different ways. Lois, the middle son, was the protégé, and his parents did everything they could to win back the Crown for him. He served briefly in World War I on the side of the British, but his ambition was cut short by a degenerative and deadly disease.