José María López Lledín
Bronze statue of El Caballero de París, by José Villa Soberón; Havana, Cuba,
José María López Lledín (died 11 July 1985), usually known as El Caballero de París (roughly, the "gentleman of Paris"), was a mentally ill resident of Havana, Cuba.[1] He was a patient of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana, and was diagnosed as suffering from confabulatory paraphrenia.[2] He wandered the streets of Havana and became well-known and popular.[2] He is portrayed in a bronze statue by José Villa Soberón.
References
- ↑ Jesús Dueñas Becerra (2005). Luis Calzadilla Fierro. Yo soy el Caballero de París. Badajoz, España: Editorial Departamento de Publicaciones de la Diputación de Badajoz, 2001 (book review, in Spanish). Revista del Hospital Psiquiátrico de la Habana 2 (2).
- 1 2 Luis Calzadilla Fierro, T. Silvia Rodríguez Pérez (1982). El caballero de París: Historia y psicopatología = The "gentleman from Paris": History and psychopathology. Revista del Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana 23 (2): 255–263.
Further reading
- Luis Calzadilla Fierro (2001). Yo soy el Caballero de París. Badajoz, España: Editorial Departamento de Publicaciones de la Diputación de Badajoz.
External links
- A more detailed account and pictures from his appearance on TV
- A website dedicated to El Caballero de Paris
- Images and video footage on YouTube (in Spanish)
- Gerardo Alfonso singing "El Ilustrado Caballero de Paris" on YouTube (in Spanish)
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