Career
He was distinguished as one of the officers of the Portuguese Army involved in the events surrounding the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1891. Accused of having betrayed the republican ideals in 1910, he found himself forced into exile in France. He died in Rome, in 1928, victim of an automobile accident.
He is an ancestor of Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, one half of the electronic music duo Daft Punk.