In 1896, Belém became rich by selling Amazonian rubber to the world, making the farmrs overnight millionaires who built their rich mansions with European materials, while their wives and daughters sent their clothes to be washed in the old continent and imported mineral water from London for their baths.
The “Theatro da Paz” was the center of cultural life in the Amazon, with concerts by European artists. Among them, one especially caught the public’s attention, the beautiful French opera singer Camille Monfort (1869-1896), who provoked indescrbable desires in the rich gentlemen of the region and atrocious jealousy in their wives due to her great beauty.
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