The life and times of your archetypal romantic revolutionary
After his wife’s death Bolívar went on to Paris where he witnessed Napoleon’s coronation and regularly frequented Fanny de Villars’ celebrated salon. This salon was little more than an upper-class brothel and he apparently took scores of lovers in France but never married again
WHY is less written in the English language about South America than any of the other continents? Could it be because the history of British involvement in the Americas south of Texas — aside from the Caribbean, Guyana and the Falklands — is a history of missed opportunities? Britain invaded Nicaragua, sent armies to Argentina, and made plans to capture Chile and to seize Mexico. But it all came to nothing.
