El Supremo
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (White, Edward Lucas) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from El Supremo: A Romance of the Great, Dictator of Paraguay Indubitably one of the greatest men this world has ever produced, and, without exception, the most wonderful man ever born in either North or South America, was Dr. Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Dictator of Paraguay from 1813 to 1840. Moreover, he was not only a great and extraordinary man, but a most interesting man. The records of his personality, doings and sayings, with the legends handed down concerning him, amount to a treasury of material for what newspaper men call "good copy." Quite as truly is the period of his first dictatorship a gold-mine of local colour. Asuncion in 1816 abounded in striking characters, and was the scene of numerous romantic occurrences and dramatic events, projected on a singularly bizarre background, altogether unmatchable in human history. For the colonial aristocracy, proud courtly and clad in gorgeous velvets and silks, failed to realise that their day had passed and struggled, for a while, against the established republic. The interaction of the viceregal society and the new government produced some startling contests. Francia´s individuality was so bewildering and peculiar that any one reading of him for the first time is likely to imagine him invented bodily. He is here portrayed just as history and legend have depicted him. Only his relation to the plot is fiction, and, even there, every episode in which he appears is founded on something recorded or traditional. The anecdotes related of him are scarcely anywhere modified. The minor characters are mostly also historical. Only Hawthorne, Cecilia and Beltran, the Mayorgas and the Velardes are fictitious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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