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C.M. Mayo's The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books)
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M I R A M A R
>>View a photo album from the author's visit to Miramar (2003).

"Miramar" was the Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg's residence in the Italian seaport of Trieste, then a part of the Austrian Empire.

It was here that Maximilian received the Mexican Delegation, a group of conservative Mexicans who offered him the throne of Mexico and thus began the tragedy of Mexico's Second Empire.

>>Read an excerpt from chapter 2 of the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a scene set in Miramar.

>>Read the complete award-winning essay, "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion" by C.M. Mayo, a nonfiction novela about a visit in 2003 to Miramar Castle, originally published in Massachusetts Review.

>>Now available as an audio CD! Buy now from CDbaby.com
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