Monday, January 27, 2003

Times Online

Times Online THE SHADOWS OF ELISA LYNCHE
By Siân Rees
Review, £14.99, 256pp
ISBN 0 755 31114 0
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ELISA LYNCH was the impoverished Irish courtesan whose extraordinary life took her from the slums of Paris in the 1850s to become the lover and companion of President Francisco Solano López, the war-mad dictator of Paraguay. Derided as esa grandísima puta, she exalted in faux-Parisienne luxury while López launched the absurd war against three neighbouring countries which ended with the extermination of around one million of his people.

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