Excerpt from La Coja Y El Encogido Juan eugenio hartzenbusch, a Spanish dramatist and man of letters, was born in Madrid, September 6, 1806. His father, Santiago Hartzenbusch, was a German, a cabinet maker by trade, and his mother, Maria Calleja, was Spanish. When only two years old, the boy had the misfortune to lose his mother. She was at a window from which on the fourth of August, 1808, she saw a tumult in the streets of Madrid. This tumult was one of the results of the insurrection in Aranjuez, on the eighteenth of March, 1808, against Manuel Godoy, known as 61 Principe de la Paz, the hated minister and favorite of Charles IV. The cir cumstances connected with this brutal affair so affected dor'ia Maria that she became insane and died within two weeks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.