havanera

Updated: June 12, 2025

The French officers, who for over a year past had led a life of hardship, were now bent upon pleasure. They fell gracefully into the Mexican mode of life, and took kindly to the havanera, the bull-fights, the Paseo, and the style of flirtation preferred by the Mexican women.

Sara Yorke Stevenson - Maximilian in Mexico : A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867