The Utopian Impulse in Latin America pp 131-143 | Cite as
Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán’s
Abstract
On April 7, 1833, Flora Tristán embarks on a voyage that will take her south. From Paris to Peru, she undertakes this transatlantic journey in order to claim the inheritance left to her father by her uncle, Don Pío de Tristán, an important figure in Peru at the time. It should be clarified that Flora Tristán, Paul Gauguin’s grandmother, was the daughter of a French woman and a Peruvian man who had met in Spain, where her mother had taken refuge during the French Revolution. Her parents were married there by a French priest who had immigrated to Spain, but Flora’s father, Mariano Tristán, died four years later without regularizing his civil status. He thus left Flora as an illegitimate daughter. Her father’s brother refused to acknowledge her legally (although he did so affectionately) and to give her the portion of inheritance that was rightly hers.
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