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- Francisco Lizana was a pages from the area of Gerona. In the year 1809 the French Army of the Pyrenees invaded the region devastating the region, massacring anyone they found on the way and finally laying siege to the city of Gerona. According to tradition all the family of Francisco was killed. At the age of 13 he left Spain, crossed the Pyrenees and established himself in the city of Perpignan, who was also Catalan speaking. we do not know why, he went to Strasbourg and there married his wife. they both left France for the island of Santo Domingo, where Francisco, now conversant in French too, served as a customs officer, very likely for the Hatian government that at the time controlled the Spanish sector of the island of Española.
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1796 - Unknown
