Vicente Riva Palacio

Vicente Riva Palacio was born in Mexico City on 16 October 1832, the son of the liberal lawyer Mariano Riva Palacio and, through his mother, the grandson of President Vicente Guerrero. A lawyer in 1854 and a deputy, he raised a guerrilla force against the French intervention, governed the State of Mexico and then Michoacán, and became a general. A satirical journalist, imprisoned in 1884 under Porfirio Díaz, he directed a five-volume history of the country, of which he wrote the second volume. Appointed Mexican minister to Madrid in 1886, he died there on 22 November 1896.

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• NovelMonja y casada, virgen y mártirVicente Riva Palacio · 1868not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain