José Luciano de Castro Pereira Corte-Real (14 December 1834 – 9 March 1914) was a

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politician, statesman, and journalist who served three times as

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. He was one of the founders of the

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, of which he was the leader from the time of

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's death in 1885, onward. Castro was the head of government during the

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crisis and the subsequent

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. The crisis was one of the factors that proved decisive in the fall of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910.

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