Exiled in France, Princess Isabel organizes concerts with young musicians.

• Princess Isabel 's business card, with a text in French written by her.
• France, no information on date.
• 10 cm x 6 cm.
• Excellent condition of conservation.
• Unique piece.

I would be very grateful if you would keep the enclosed tickets for the concert I am organizing in favor of my beloved Young Musicians Project. If you are unable to keep them, please send them to me as soon as possible. If you are so kind as to take them without being able to attend the concert, please be kind enough to deliver them so that my young charges can see a full house.

Talking to one of the collection's loyal collectors, a music lover, Mário - whom I would like to thank again here - I learned that Princess Isabel and the Count of Eu have a long history with music, dating back to the Second Empire. They always hosted receptions and balls with musicians at the Palácio das Laranjeiras. Celebrities such as the American Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the German Richard Wagner and the Brazilian Carlos Gomes also had the opportunity to meet the imperial family in Brazil or Europe. This practice and this taste of the couple continued, albeit in a different and reduced form, in France during their exile.

An interesting detail that I was also told was that the Princess played the piano, as the Countess of Paris highlights in her memoirs:

“But of all the unusual characters who visited my grandmother, the one I liked most was M. White. This black man with thick white hair, combed like General Dourakine, with thick tufts above his ears, was a violinist and accompanied the Countess of Eu (Princess Isabel ) on the piano, or rather, it was the Countess of Eu who accompanied M. White on the piano… I think she was truly a virtuoso. She came, in any case, several times a month, and for hours you could hear the music coming from the hall where no one had the right to enter. Only children, from time to time, were allowed to enter this sanctuary.”

I found this piece in France. At first glance, I liked this visiting card of Isabella - the first I have seen, it is very rare - and the extensive and delicate text in French written by the Princess, for an unidentified recipient. The content is also unique and exceptional - the music - because it allows us to get to know another aspect of the personality and tastes of this very cultured and capable Princess. It is also important to highlight the excellent condition of this piece, impeccable. In short, a piece that I consider very special.