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Dear
Reader, Be prepared for a surprise. This is not about a Mexico
you'll see on the news... read more
P H O T O S
 This is the last prince of
the Mexican Empire:
Agustín de Iturbide y Green (1863-1925), carte-de-visite
circa 1865.
From: Museo Nacional de Historia, Chapultepec Castle, Mexico
City.
CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.
Reproduction authorized
for this website, www.cmmayo.com. by the Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia
>>View
a larger version of this photo.
 Rosedale
The historic Washington D.C. estate
in the heights above Georgetown (on Newark Ave, very near today's
Wisconsin Ave NW) where the prince's American mother, Alice Green,
lived as a young girl, and where she and Angel de Iturbide, second
son of the Emperor Iturbide, were married in 1855. See a larger
photo and read more...
Chapultepec
Castle
During the Second Empire, this served as Maximilian's Imperial
Residence. At that time, it was on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Miramar Castle
(Pictured right) The castle Maximilian, then an Archduke of Austria,
built in Trieste. Photos taken during my visit in January 2003.
Río
Frío
A fort and small village in the mountains on the highway between
Mexico City and Puebla. The scene of many a crime, including
the murder of Baron Charles d'Huart in March 1866. From my visit
circa 2004.
Map
of Mexico by Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, circa 1853
This
map is from the book by General Almonte, Guia de forasteros,
which is mentioned in the novel.
More
photos to be posted soon...
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author of The Hispanic Condition
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Praise
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"some of the
most exquisitely fashioned, perfectly
measured prose alive in the world today."
Naomi
Shihab Nye
"The
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connected global village stand exposed in Mayo's work.
Sky Over El Nido won the 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award
for
Short Fiction. I am not suprised."
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Toolan, S.J., Commonweal
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Praise
for C.M. Mayo's
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion:
"This
delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces
that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety, its splendid
geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat!"
Margaret
Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing
"It will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure
and render our perennial vecinos a little less distante."
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The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009)