densidad regional

A young woman leaves Ireland escaping the famine of the 1840′s. She moves to England and developes a penchant for strong military men. She, Eliza Lynch, marries a French officer the age of 15. She moves from England to France and then on to Algeria where her husband, Xavier de Quatrefages, was responsible for the military hospital. All did not go well so she returned from that war to Paris where she became the lover of another strongman in her life, a Russian military officer. Unfortunately war too called him to Russia to figth for the Tsar and Elisa Lynch was left alone in Paris with bills to pay. She met with a short mestizo Guarani general from deepest South America who regaled her with his attention and gifts. She became pregnant by him and decided to go with him to Paraguay where he assured her he would soon become dictator. She had her first child Francisco (Panchito) in Buenos Aires alone and depressed. When she came to Paraguay she was the focus of a cultural change which engulfed the country before the war. Panchito, he firstborn, was to die twelve years later defending his father’s honour and his country’s pride, unwillingly killed by a Brazilian soldier in front of his mother in Cerro Cora, Paraguay. This brought to the close South America’s bloodiest war, The War of the Triple Alliance, but Eliza Lynch survived the war with many of Solano Lopez’s children and litigated for the vast tracts of public land and the varous properties she aquired before and during the war. This is a story of a strong and ambitious [...]