Viscountess Passos is a title created by H.M. King Pedro V of Portugal by decree dated 24 April 1860 in favour of D.Beatiz de Passos Manoel, daughter of the Portuguese statesman Manuel da Silva Passos and D.Guiomar de Souza Girão, from the Girão family of Santarém, Portugal. She was also Viscountess Ferreri, by marriage.
The title is now represented by the Barons Arcossó, as the 1st Viscountess's sister married the Baron Arcossó.
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“Through dinner she felt a gradual icy coldness stealing through her like novocaine. She had made up her mind. It seemed as if she had set the photograph of herself in her own place, forever frozen into a single gesture.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)