100 years ago, Raul Proença wrote in Seara Nova: “The Republic will be. I need to believe it as I need the air I breathe. So much effort could not have been in vain”. Prophetic words, written months before the May 28 coup that supplanted the First Republic. Rui Tavares returns to the end of the First Republic through the eyes of Seara Nova, the publication that managed to survive the years of the dictatorship.