Recognizing that adherence to the way modern school was made by different forces, we investigate private education initiatives promoted by the Catholic Church in the Imperial Court. From the advertisements that circulated Almanak Laemmert and O Apóstolo the newspaper was unable to locate information about the physical structure, curricula and amounts charged for those colleges. Establishing the chronological cut the 1870s and 1880s, which comprise the time of Reformation Leôncio de Carvalho (1879), we also reflect on the relationships established between the Imperial State and the Catholic Church an expression of the imbrications of public and private, a brand society in the nineteenth century.
primary education; religious colleges; the imperial court