consumed vigil.
The constant fear of the death of her lover, broke his health.
The reality has dealt the coup de grace:
died of sorrow and love.
Image: Carmen Puch de Guemes
Carmencita Puch touched the sky with hands on when Martin Miguel de Guemes he proposed marriage. One could almost say he was born loving. And if the leader was coming to life was by happenstance.
Guemes, a man of many women, had faced the father of his bride, Maria Juana Saravia, when it was required to cut off the relationships, parallel to the engagement he had with a Jujuy.
Image: Martín Miguel de Guemes
Reverted wedding Macacha Guemes I knew the love affair to his Puch Martín Miguel, his brother urged him to notice her. Within a week, arranged the marriage when they married in 1815, he was thirty and she eighteen. This strange gaucho wore pearl aristocratic Salta. A near-perfect beauty, blond hair framing her angel face where his eyes flashed a deep blue. Not only was the most beautiful of the society of Salta, but noted for the sweetness of his character.
But, if by Martín Miguel de Guemes touched the sky, at the same time he met hell.
had to accept his fate as the wife of a warrior, but remained under constant vigil, a permanent hunch that tormented the treacherous bullet that would separate. Carmen Puch lived scanning the horizon from the balcony of his house collapsed in her health over and over again by the fear of not seeing him again. Until your fantasy come true.
Juana Manuela Gorriti One night, she was a child, emerged from the lethargy of sleep, amazed that his father had left the front lines. Gorriti could not believe it had lost Guemes, one of his best men. Nobody had the courage to confess to his wife the truth. The next day, wondering why it Martín Miguel delayed both send news.
- Last night I heard a horse come and thought it was him, "said Carmen.
- was my father's indiscretion escaped from the lips of Juana Manuela (who has in its literary pages) submerging the wife of Salta in an immediate depression.
By becoming light in your mind about the meaning of the arrival of Gorriti darkened his heart forever. Crepe and mourning were his only evidence of its existence, even the love of her three young children could loosen it from despair.
Nine months after her husband, at age 25, died of love, happy in their misery, convinced her to go and meet Miguel Martín.
Image: Macacha Güemes in his old age
Internet version of article published in January 1994
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