It should also be noted that several publishers (including Parent-Desbarres) repeated this commercial strategy, reprinting the work regularly in 1844, 1845 and 1846, always including the reference to the Viscount of Santarém in the title, even when the Crónica da Guiné was already in print and Santarém’s words had been removed from the text. In 1858, two years after the Portuguese author’s death, a new reprint retained these characteristics. It should be noted that, as far as we know, the Geschichte von Portugal was never published in its entirety in France. What did exist were additions by French publishers, which were always spurious in relation to the German author’s writings. Also in 1840, another French edition of the work was published in Paris, adapted by Jean Lacroix de Marlès and , also published by Parent-Desbarres, which consists of a summary and continuation of the German text by the former: the Histoire de Portugal, d’apres la grande histoire de Schaeffer [sic], et continuée jusqu’à nous jours... Probably intended for an audience less interested in critical apparatus and erudition, this 288-page edition, practically devoid of annotations (even those from the German original), is ultimately a historiographical product of little quality. The chronological scope is out of step with the Hamburg and Paris editions: Marlès not only extended it to the period from 1495 to 1585 (chapters VIII and IX), but also summarised in about fifteen pages the historical events in Portugal from 1585 to the fall of the first Cartist movement in 1836 (chapter X). This did not prevent the work from undergoing at least six new reprints during Schaefer’s lifetime (1853, 1856, 1860 and 1867) and after his death in 1869.

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