Late in life this woman engaged in a heated lawsuit with a Scottish doctor named Stewart, who was accused of embezzling the fortune entrusted to support her in her retirement.
Late in life this woman engaged in a heated lawsuit with a Scottish doctor named Stewart, who was accused of embezzling the fortune entrusted to support her in her retirement. After the end of her disastrous marriage to the French army surgeon Xavier Quatrefages, this woman fled to Paris and supported herself as an "Instructress in Languages." She left Paris on board the gunboat Tacuari, whose hold contained sets of Limoges and Sevres china and a grand piano. Dressed in a "ragged ballgown," she dug the graves of her eldest son Panchito and his father with her bare hands. Her kindness to Major da Cunha Matos, who had been captured at the Battle of Tuyuti, helped ensure that she too would receive decent treatment from the Brazilians who seized her at Cerro Corá after she and her family were forced to flee from Asunción. Lily Tuck's novel The News from Paraguay fictionalizes the life of, FTP, what Irish-born mistress of Francisco Solano López?
Late in life this woman engaged in a heated lawsuit with a Scottish doctor named Stewart, who was accused of embezzling the fortune entrusted to support her in her retirement.
Eliza (Alicia) {Lynch}