The author of two volumes that continued the work História de Portugal. Popular e Ilustrada [ History of Portugal. Popular e Illustrated] by Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, subtitled Um reinado trágico [A tragic kingdom] and dedicated to the times of King Carlos I, Joaquim Alfredo Gallis was born on 17 November 1859 and died on 24 November 1910. He was a journalist, novelist, short story writer, translator and historian. According to various sources, he made his first contribution to the press in 1881, in the periodical As Instituições [The Institutions], for which he wrote political and social chronicles, short stories and poems under his own name and also under one of his most used pseudonyms (Rabelais). In 1877, at the age of 18, he joined the factory services of the Arsenal da Marinha [Navy Arsenal] as a clerk. His father Francisco Augusto Gallis had worked 39 years for this institution (he retired as a note-taker and section chief). In 1877 he joined the Capitania do Porto de Lisboa [Captaincy of the Port of Lisbon] and was promoted to 1st class clerk in 1894.

He wrote for periodicals on an ongoing basis ( As Instituições [The Institutions]; A Ilustração Portuguesa [Portuguese Illustration]; O Universal [The Universal]; Tempo [Time]; Nova Alvorada [New Dawn]; Ecos da Avenida; Jornal do Comércio [Echoes from the Avenue; Journal of Commerce]; Diário Popular; O Manuelinho d’ Évora [Popular Journal; The Manuelinho d’ Évora]) or episodic, such as the Correio Paulistano [São Paulo Mail] of São Paulo, for which he was a correspondent in 1893, publishing the political chronicles "Correspondência de Lisboa" [Mail from Lisbon], signed by Rabelais.

He was the editorial secretary of Brasil-Portugal: Revista Quinzenal Ilustrada [Brazil-Portugal: Illustrated Fortnightly Magazine] and a member of the Associação dos Jornalistas de Lisboa [Lisbon Journalists' Association] founded in 1896. In 1895 he wrote four articles in the Universal on the organisation, problems and virtues of journalism, urging fellow professionals to create an association to defend their common interests. He took part in the works of the Liga Liberal [Liberal League], a political movement founded by Augusto Fuschini after the Ultimatum of 1890, and held public office: as well as being a clerk at the Arsenal da Marinha , he was a secretary to the civil governor of Lisbon and an administrator of the municipality of Barreiro.

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