walked the street reporter, all of last year touring the Centennial Buenos Aires: La Boca, San Telmo, the Plaza and Avenida de Mayo, Corrientes Street witnessed his footsteps until, unexpectedly, the young playwright José González Castillo took him slightly less than the force in the neighborhood of Boedo. And there again, after almost go to blows with his guide, in 20 of the Anglo tram that would again Esmeralda Sarmiento, when he realized that the Centennial year was gone and there was much that were still in the pipeline. Many corner, many businesses, how many more red carpet and many popular peringundines could have traveled, how many characters could be revived! Fuck with González Castillo, whose passion boedista had deviated from its planned route!, But, in short, had been a remarkable journey to a new neighborhood that would definitely talk about in the future. When the tram, which was down by Bartolome Mitre, crossed Liberty, saw the lofty tower of the Hotel Paris and could not remember when Payo Roque, the character who more than any other represents the "belle époque" Buenos Aires, one that began in 1880 reached its zenith in the Centennial and its decline with the 1930 coup.
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Roque Benjamin, that was his name, was born in 1865 in the city of Córdoba, scion of a prominent family whose founders, brothers John Constantine and Leo, arrived in France in the 1820 and dedicated to successful mining in the northern province. The first, in particular, had an outstanding performance as a drawing teacher at the Seminary of Loreto, built in 1840, the Coliseum and was grantee of the Mint after the fall of Rosas. The young Benjamin, as was commonly used in the distinguished families, studied with the Jesuits and came to Buenos Aires in 1886 , when his friend and person from the same province as another Celman Juárez was elected president. Say that these were friends, then, the duration in office, Celman granted an annual pension of 400,000 pesos which enabled strong link to the high society of Buenos Aires and given the high life. And Payo say also that I was grateful, he never denied his friendship with Celman-as many did, as one of the few who continued to visit and addressed in the voluntary ostracism of his stately palace on Lavalle Street, now occupied by solar an exhibition of low-quality trinkets and worse price.
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Revolution Park, then, had left without protection and without a pension and had to dig in some way, ocurriéndosele what some outdated original feel of our time: to found a social newspaper today called The Hives (bah, what today we would say gossip). It seems that the thing he liked to Payo and was good at the job of editor, it later became director of papers like the Pif-Paf, later reprinted in Paris, Messager Americain, the Buenos Aires Sport, America magazine and a large format album titled The Republic of Argentina 1906-1907, profusely illustrated. But how had become of the Payot in Paris, with the sole income of their publications? Very simple, another guard had been achieved: Don Benito Villanueva, a financier, winemaker, refrigerator socio-old La Blanca Sansinena, and interim president of the Senate for a quarter century, which led him into an opportunity for Europe as Secretary and which the Payo again about fifty times. The first decade of the twentieth century was the best of times: lunch at the Plaza Hotel, afternoon in the paddock of Palermo, dinner at the Petit or Julien, evenings at the Jockey Club or the Petit Salon ... But long taken to Buenos Aires in the bohemian Confectionery del Aguila, Helvetica or Royal Keller, where he hobnobbed with Rubén Darío, who collaborated on some of its publications, and the "cream of the intelligentsia." At the door of one of those holdouts, coffee The Brazilian Maipu Street, it was common to see whistle arias and canzonetas because according to many historians this was the greatest art of Payo, hiss. Ricardo Llanes had people following him along the Avenida de Mayo, as the Pied Piper of Hamelin, until it slipped away in the Hotel Paris, his eternal home.
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While over the years the Payo dictatorship, continued to dress as in her youth: Levite Fitted with silk lapels, plastron, especially the "Cavour" plush hat ... But patrons were thinning as much as the look and, despite keeping the handlebar mustache, barely concealing dye their gray hair when he was exercising his sleeve in open competition with other famous "tube" of that time: Charles de Soussens. To make matters worse, Paris closed its doors and Payo wandered from hotel to hotel until the end staying in cheap guesthouses. In one, the American Hotel and Cangallo Carabelas, fell ill one evening in November 1932 and taken to the Public Assistance, where he died. Benito Villanueva called to identify him and old friend and guard it difficult and painful to acknowledge, so old and deteriorated was the Payo. Over the years, became a legend Enrique Cadícamo BA, portrayed him in Shusheta, whose verses are still present in the popular imagination: "The whole street saw Florida / with spats, top hat and cane ...".
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said the columnist, at the beginning of this note, the Payo Roque was the summary of a time, time of plenty and butter to the roof in joyful abandon that even the Great War altered in these remote banks of the world, but awoke his golden dream of the global crisis of 1929 and the coup of September 6, 1930. Death of a world and also died in a hotel Payo had better times, there Conte ran the restaurant, and José Luis Roncallo premiered in 1905 the corn-Carabelas before the Court so often saw him dawn ... Ricardo Llanes dedicated a poem and perhaps the best epitaph: "To think that you have died without any poet / I cried a few verses, looking at your coffin! / Leave the tomb, Payo. He whistled a canzonetta / dance still memories of Esmeralda and Maipú. "
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