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![[Proposal by Júlio
Ribeiro for Brazilian National Flag, 1888]](../images/b/br!rib88.gif)
by Joseph McMillan
The modern flag of the state of São Paulo came from the republican proposal of 16 July 1888
in Júlio Ribeiro's
journal O Rebate.. The initial design consisted of
fifteen alternate stripes, eight black and seven white, with a red rectangle
in the canton, symbolizing the racial fusion of the three races.
Jaume Ollé, 2 July 1996
I recently came across this account of an early (pre-republic) hoisting of
this flag. The information is from a leaflet on the history of the city of
Sao José do Rio Pardo by Rodolpho José del Guerra, transcribed at
www.tefis.hpg.ig.com.br. It says that
in June 1889, members of the "Italian 20th of September Society," a group
with substantial republican membership, clashed with monarchists in the
streets of Sao José do Rio Pardo, causing troops to be dispatched to restore
calm. After two months of relative quiet, the contention resumed in August
when a republican leader was attacked by police following a political
gathering. The next morning, 11 August 1889, the republicans seized the
building housing the municipal assembly and the jail, hoisting the
revolutionary flag of Júlio Ribeiro and proclaiming the establishment of a
republic, all to the strains of the Marseillaise. The next afternoon,
troops arrived from São Paulo and recaptured the city. I'm not sure if this is the first hoisting of this flag "in the cloth," but it's
significant that the flag had acquired a sufficient following that
republicans in a provincial town would have one to hoist after a relatively
spontaneous uprising less than a month after Ribeiro published his design.
Joseph McMillan, 28 October 2002
The flag designed by Ribeiro was hoisted on the Provincial Government Palace in São Paulo on 15 November
1889, the day the republic was proclaimed in Rio de Janeiro, and continued
to fly there for some days afterward.
Joseph McMillan, 16 September 2002