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Alfonso Reyes

Died in 1959

Alfonso Reyes was born in Monterrey on 17 May 1889, the son of General Bernardo Reyes, governor of Nuevo León, who was killed in 1913 during the coup against Madero. A lawyer and co-founder of the Ateneo de la Juventud, he left that year for the legation in Paris, then lived in Madrid from 1914 to 1924, where he worked with Menéndez Pidal. Ambassador to Argentina and to Brazil, he returned in 1939 to preside over the Casa de España, which became the Colegio de México, and died in Mexico City on 27 December 1959.

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