was a gentleman who liked women passionately.
A poorly documented history spread comments
A poorly documented history spread comments
brushed his image of man,
grounded in an episode that occurred in campaign
in which the proverbial hero discretion
is played cleverly.
When I was a little over 40 years, stationed in Tucumán, the handsome and charming general, was the choice partner for the woman he wanted and it was a girl fifteen years, he touched his heart, the beautiful Dolores Helguero, daughter of a patrician family of that province.
The geography of the north had been the scene of some of the loves of Belgrano.
Until then he had followed Maria Josefa Ezcurra, when abandoned by her husband He could live in freedom, the old love that united them. Permancieron together in the Northern Campaign, until pregnant, returned to have her son, who by social conventions, was not a Belgrano, but a Rose, when Juan Manuel and Encarnación Ezcurra portrayed him as his own son
Then her lover had the picturesque Elizabeth Pichegru. French that scandalized his contemporaries with his manners and those unexplained daring dresses with stretched Cortona, which had not resulted in a ratio of no importance, because when he meets Dolores, still had the spirit committed by those stormy love.
was not in the fate of Belgrano make a love in its many woes to rest. And possibly Helguero relationship with Dolores, was the most painful, because the target was responsible for giving a dramatic finish and was over 6 years the talk of society Tucumán.
That romance was born Manuela Monica Belgrano Heart of Jesus, which he dedicated patriot the most tender love and did not forget his "dove" as he called it, or the deathbed. In his will, written in May 1820, entrusted his upbringing to his sister Juana, and instruction and spiritual direction to his brother priest.
Manuel, Dolores had for a serious and committed. I had given my word of marriage because she wanted to start a family, being one of his dearest wishes. But then, the general was absorbed by the battles of the Northern Campaign which commanded army, and the marriage was not forthcoming.
In one of the meetings were taking lovers over the years, Dolores got pregnant and when Belgrano was able to return at last to marry, found that he had been married by a certain Rivas-fixing Helguero family.
Grief was immense, especially because her husband quickly abandoned his wife. Belgrano he wanted to fulfill his word, found out where he had secretly directed Rivas, when it was confirmed to Bolivia, dispatched click after click to see what fate had run, if he had died in order to realize their marriage. Could never confirm.
She left the city desperate to settle in Catamarca Tucumán. He, sick, and Ayohuma Vilcapugio ousted, beaten by the government, he felt his life was ending. Manuela Monica was just a year before finally de Tucumán Buenos Aires, Belgrano asked to see it one last time, and perhaps the memory has been a light in his agony.
Manuela Monica. Details of Pripidiano Oil Pueyrredon The June 20, 1820, Buenos Aires into anarchy, he met the day of the three governors. Amid the chaos, only a newspaper report dealt with his death in a short note. Belgrano
not die at all that day. Perpetuated his blood daughter and his name, founding family of the Belgrano Vega and synthesized what is sure his father would have wanted for her. An educated woman who dedicated her life to her family and to claim those 40,000 pesos that the government owed to his father, that the four schools that he had ordered the lifting of that money, they were founded.
© Peña Southern History. Ana di Cesare, Geronimo Rombolá, Beatriz Clavenna
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