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'The Executioner'*. But Madam Firing Squad conveys the meaning perfectly. *By firing squad - Portuguese verb "fuzilar" = 'to execute by firing squad', ultimately comes from the noun "fuzil"('rifle'). Big problem with that was the one that should have acted was her father, which is why I think...

Looking back at my post, I seem to have misled people - I didn't mean I thought D.Isabel wasn't a positive example of a female ruler, I was referring to Dilma Rousseff, which was the first(and only one so far) Brazilian female president. As for D.Isabel, we'll never know whether she would be a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Question Not quite, at least not in regards to the Empire.

I wouldn't say she was a positive example of a female ruler... I don't think the reason they didn't like Isabel and Gaston was solely because they were a woman and a Frenchman respectively(it didn't help, of course). They(especially Gaston) seemed to be disliked on their own merits, although I...

Yup, but had they not taken this opportunity, at least one other would have come - the sucession of D.Pedro II. I strongly suspect they would have moved then.

Probably. Many of the people who mattered wanted to ditch the Emperor, and most of the others wanted only to be with the winning side. OTOH, the Empire had inertia on its side - and that was one of the reasons the Republicans moved when they did, they feared a peaceful transition from D. Pedro...

For 67 years(1822-1889): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil

Brazil keeping the Monarchy would have been better. How much better is a matter of debate. The politicians were the same. OTOH, an Empire of Brazil wouldn't have gone wholeheartedly on Comte's Positivism, which shaped so much of Brazilian politics and mindset in the 20th century.