Pedro Benoit the Forgotten Hero

Alejandro Zuccarelli Benoit, with surgical precision, respect for the figure he is investigating, passion for his own roots and an unquestionable intellectual honesty, dives into his family tree to reveal the secrets of an almost forgotten hero. Pedro Benoit is pheraps one of the personalities involved in more mysteries and legends than any other of our Nations personalities. Is he the dauphin who would inherit the throne of France? Are his house colors hidden in many of the revolutionary America flags? Alejandro seek paths for everyone to draw their own conclusions or ask themselves more questions, but he has the respect of not conditioning the answers. It is perhaps the springboard from wich we can jump into the story of a visionary man with fresh ideas and unwavering determination. Pedro Benoit is, for Alejandro, more than the name related to the creation of the layout of cities such as Merlo, Ituzango and La Plata or the creation of some of the most emblematic buildings of those cities. For Alejandro, his ancestor had a sagacious mind and his actions should place him as an example to be taken in our time to rethink the country in wich we live. The story in this book is not a dead memory but a living action that reaches us to the present and challenges us about the direction we could take as a Nation.