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peter: he showed madame lynch to his father, and his father was upset. so she was put aside, and, uh anthony: kept as a mistress. peter: and that was the way paraguayan society tried to treat her, and she wanted to be treated as the anthony: princess. peter: yes. anthony: tell me about madame lynch s famous boat trip. on one of her more notorious ventures as hostess, madame lynch organized a grand outing to the new french colony at nouveau bordeaux. she invited all of society to join her. historian: right. anthony: a magnificent river steamer was engaged for the party. guido: and, well, there were some tensions between the paraguayan ladies and madame lynch. anthony: once on board, as the story goes, those mean bitches treated their hostess like so much trash. ....
Cannibals. peter: there was the indians, the guaycurú, coming down the river and killing everybody. there was the lengua who, if you entered the country, you are good food. anthony: right. did the paraguayans ever see this as a utopia? peter: no. i m sure not. what we have ahead is nueva bordeaux. anthony: wait a minute. that? peter: this. anthony: wow it s kinda not how i pictured it. doesn t look like bordeaux to me. there s nothing much left of nouveau bordeaux. i m told a small museum of artifacts. the site where the only once briefly existed is now called villa hayes. ....
pedro: but they were originally from france? anthony: from france. yes. pedro: what city, do you know? anthony: my great-great-grandfather was from near bordeaux. so, i m, i m curious about this whole episode of the settlement of nouveau bordeaux. anthony: the paraguay river still, as it was a hundred and fifty years ago, the country s main artery; a thoroughfare for transporting people and goods. ....
peter: that s the catfish, surubí. anthony: and that? peter: that s the dorado, the golden fish. anthony: oh, the dorado. of course. yes. ooh, that s tasty! ooh, that s nice. anthony: so, i m i m curious about this whole episode of the settlement of nouveau bordeaux. guido: there came about four hundred people. they were supposed to be about one thousand. they were supposed to be, most of them, farmers. but just eighty-six were farmers. anthony: who were the other people? just guido: they were tailors; they were shoemakers, musicians peter: teachers and artists, and they were put in the jungle and left by themselves. anthony: right. why here, of all of the places in the world? people talk about the chaco as a hell. i mean it s hot here; it s dry, it s wet, it s fetid, it s difficult. guido: big mosquitoes, and you have all the ticks and all kinds of vermin. anthony: a flatland of cactus and thorns and misery and ....
anthony: might have been, himself, a seeker of some kind of utopian dreams. pedro: but they were originally from france? anthony: from france. yes. pedro: what city, do you know? anthony: my great-great-grandfather was from near bordeaux. so, i m, i m curious about this whole episode of the settlement of nouveau bordeaux. anthony: the paraguay river still, as it was a hundred and fifty years ago, the country s main artery; a thoroughfare for transporting people and goods. ....