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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:18:00

accounts, was an idiot. >> so he came back with a mistress, madam lynch. >> yes. >> which dad wasn't too happy about. >> right. ♪ >> he was very traditional, and wanted his son to marry a paraguayan woman and do everything by the book. >> right. >> paraguay's soon to be first mistress, madam eliza lynch was the already-married daughter of an irish doctor. ambitious, social climbing, fond of nice things. >> clothes imported from france. they say she brought paraguay the first tiara. and there were parties here.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:19:00

>> he showed madam lynch to his father, and his father was upset. so she was put aside. >> and kept as a mistress? >> and that was the way paraguayan society wanted to treat her. and she wanted to be treated as the -- >> princess? >> yes. >> tell me about madam lynch's famous boat trip. on one of her more notorious ventures as hostess, she organized a grand outing to the new french colony at nuevo bordeaux. she wanted all of society to join her? >> right. >> magnificent river steamer was engaged for the party. >> there were ladies and madam lynch. >> once on board, as the story goes, those mean bitches treated their hostess like so much trash. >> so she got upset and threw

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:28:00

that's not a good mix. ♪ >> unlike madam lynch's guests, i'm making damn sure i'm eating on this boat trip. ah, the most important part of any meal, cold, frosty beverages. >> you already had one. >> i started early. here. cheers. oh, here we go. thank you. little fish in a mango salsa. ♪ >> you have the two most appreciated fish on the table here of paraguay. that's the catfish. >> and that? >> that's the dorado. >> oh, of course, yes. oh, that's tasty. that's nice.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:17:00

of the houses of the notorious madam lynch? >> yes. exactly. >> journalist, poet and author -- has written books on paraguay's history. >> who now who exactly was madam lynch? a murky background, would you say? >> there's a lot of talk about that. somebody say he was a bright woman or an evil one. >> she came over on the famous trip from france? >> right. >> in the 1840s, lopez senior reversed many of paraguay's isolationist policies. he invited foreigners to settle here. he built one of south america's first railways. its steam engines taken out of service only a few years ago. and he said his son, francisco solano lopez to europe. his mission, his father sent him out to get what? >> arms and technicians. engineers. and machinery. >> junior, by most contemporary

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:39:00

with madame lynch. >> madame lynch was fond of things like french couture. >> yes. and that changed the way of dress. >> madam lynch might have been good for business. i try to put this in a light i can be enthusiastic about, like how clearly forward-thinking my relatives were. his customers were a hat maker, the very people that treated madam lynch with utter contempt, did they live in the old colonial homes, the mansions we see still? that type of residence? >> yes. >> times were changing in south america too, in those days. society ladies craved the latest in french fashion. there was money to be made. ah, i'm bummed. ♪ >> after this episode with the new bordeaux group came a triple alliance war. >> jean bourdain died in 1858. >> yes. >> it was a good time to die,

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:41:00

thanks presumably to lopez junior's expansionist ambitions he dragged paraguay into a triple alliance war. he challenged all three neighbors. >> brazil, argentina and uruguay -- >> to war. this doesn't seem like a good idea. >> no. >> right. >> in what would become the bloodiest war in latin america's history, hundreds of thousands of paraguayans died. when lopez ran out of adults, he sent children into the field, dressed only in rags, armed with sticks painted to look like guns. >> my great grandfather was a 10-year-old boy, and he was dressed like a girl because otherwise he was going to be enrolled in the army. >> lopez, he was eventually hunted down. madam lynch survived? >> yes, she survived. >> with her money? she was allowed to keep her possessions? >> yes.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:37:00

so, you guys have some information perhaps on my elusive jean bourdain, i hear? >> mm-hm? >> yeah. i don't know what he did here. of course i'm hoping for something extremely glamorous, a river pirate, gun runner, drug smuggler, maybe he died in the saddle. maybe he died happy. maybe he lived out in the bush, surrounded by adoring indigenous women. i don't know. if he was a masseur for madame lynch, i guess i would be let down. >> i contacted with other historians and genealogists around the world and the history of your family is very interesting. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> okay.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20150927-07:17:00

and said this is paraguayan soup. soapa paraguaya. and the dictator ate it and liked it. and a bit later, the entire country eat it. >> so cheesy cornbread. >> yes. >> awesome. good meal. ♪ >> so this was the house or one of the houses of the notorious madam lynch? >> right, exactly. >> this author has written books on paraguay's history. >> who now who exactly was madam lynch? a murky background, would you say? >> let's talk about that. somebody say he was a great woman, or she was a evil one. >> she came over on the famous trip from france? >> right.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20150927-07:28:00

>> to hunt deer and water pig, capybara. >> that's a peacemaker. any rogue nazis we could shoot? i am tempted by the offer of a cheap shotgun for sale, but reason wins out. i don't think we are going to buy a shotgun today. me, beer, shotgun, hot sunny day, a producer? that's not a good mix. ♪ >> unlike madam lynch's guests, i'm making damn sure i'm eating on this boat trip. ah, the most important part of any meal, cold, frosty beverages. >> you already had one. >> i started early. here. cheers.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20150927-07:20:00

organized an outing to the new french colony. at neuvo bordeaux. she wanted all of society to join her? >> right. >> magnificent steamer was engaged for the party. >> there were ladies and madam lynch. >> once on board, as the story goes, those mean bitches treated their hostess like so much trash. >> so she got upset and threw off board all of the food that was, they were supposed to eat. >> she had it all thrown in the river? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> then she ordered the captain to stop the boat and let her guests just sit there in that jungle heat for hours. >> throwing tubs of caviar, whole roasted pigs into the river in front of these starving aristocrats, somehow that pleases me. ♪ if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box...

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