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Eliza lynch: queen of paraguay
Eliza Alice Lynch was the Irish mistress-wife of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.
Lynch, Eliza Alicia (1834–86), mistress of Francisco Solano Lopez (dictator of Paraguay, 1862–70), was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, the eldest of at least.

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Eliza Lynch, born in Charleville, County Cork in 1833, became the National Heroine of Paraguay. She met the future dictator General Francisco Solano López in Paris in January 1854 and remained with him until he and their eldest son were killed in front of her on the 1 March 1870, the last day of the most destructive war in the history of the Americas in which over 90% of the men and boys of Paraguay died. Theirs was a romantic and tragic love story of the damned.

During her lifetime, and for another generation, the beautiful and charismatic Eliza Lynch was the most famous and the most infamous woman in South America, even more so than Evita Perón a century later. ‘I represent Scandal’, she ruefully admitted. Paraguay, the landlocked but richest country in the region before the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-70) which was fought against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, returned to the Stone Age.

Until recently, Eliza Lynch was forgotten in Ireland and throughout most of the world. The authors discover

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The amazing story of Eliza Lynch, the Irish ‘Queen of Paraguay’

Eliza Lynch, the Irish ‘Queen of Paraguay,’ is honored each year in her hometown of Charleville, Co Cork.

Eliza Alice Lynch was born in Charleville, Co Cork in 1833 to John, a medical professional, and Elizabeth (nee Lloyd) Lynch.

At the age of 10, Eliza and her family left Ireland to escape the Great Hunger and relocated to Paris, France.

In June 1850, Eliza married French officer Xavier Quatrefages and shortly thereafter accompanied him to Algeria where he was stationed for duty. At 18 years old, Eliza returned to Paris to stay with her mother after a bout of poor health.

Back in Paris, Eliza - noted for her beauty - met General Francisco Solano Lopez, who was training with the Napoleonic army, in 1854. The two began a relationship and Eliza accompanied him back to his native Paraguay in 1854.

Though they never married, the couple went on to have six children together.

Francisco Solano Lopez (Getty Images)

Eliza became a national heroine in her adopted country of Paraguay. She fought alongside Lop

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Eliza Lynch

Irish woman; First Lady of Paraguay

Eliza Alicia Lynch
Eliza, c. 1864
In office 16 October 1862 – 1 March 1870
Born	(1833-11-19)19 November 1833 Cork, Ireland
Died	27 July 1886(1886-07-27) (aged 52) Paris, France
Spouse(s)	Xavier Quatrefages Francisco Solano López (1854–1870; "de facto")
Children	Juan Francisco Corina Adelaida Enrique Venancio Federico Morgan Lloyd Carlos Honorio Leopoldo
Occupation	First Lady
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Eliza Alice Lynch (Charleville, County Cork, Ireland, 19 November 1833 – Paris, France, 25 July 1886) was the Irishmistress-wife of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.

Slandered as the most vilified woman in Latin American history, she was dubbed as "an ambitious courtesan" who seduced the heir apparent of the Government of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López, turning him into "a bloodthirsty dictator." However, all those accusations were part of the propaganda-warfare by the allies during the Paraguayan War, and are now disproven.^[1]

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