spanish "duchess" leaves huge historical archive and palace to wife
>> Monday, June 16, 2008
i found this article on luisa isabel fascinating. what an interesting life... from the article:
"The dictator Francisco Franco jailed her for championing workers, who nicknamed her the "Red Duchess". She challenged Spain's official history, arguing that Columbus didn't discover America. She was an atheist, a republican and reckoned her 13th-century ancestor Guzman el Bueno, ennobled for fighting the Moors, was a north African whose grandmother was black."
2 comments:
Off topic, but you guys are on the front of the 3 Rivers Arts Fest site
patrice, you don't ever have to be on topic...
thanks for the heads up, i would have missed that.
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