Francisco Montes Reina

Francisco Montes Reina "Paquiro" was born in Chiclana. He would have become a surgeon, has a certain marquis not retracted his protection, leaving Francisco's father in such a squeeze that the son became "Paquiro" since he was not satisfied just being a mason. Flinging himself headlong at bullfighting he relied on courage untel he found art; Montes finally occupied so great a position in bullfighting that around 1840 he was paid in Madrid 6000 real for killing five bulls. Two years later he earned 2000 per bull. Until 1848, when he retired, he was by far the most important bullfighter. He came back to the ring after given himself and his money to brandy, wich is a bad adviser. He was not the same as before. If "Rumbón" in his last afternoon, July 21, 1850, at Madrid, did not kill "Paquiro", he inflicted on him the most serious blow on his career. A shadow of himself, without ever again turning the flannel with his wirst, he died with forty-six years in his home town on April 4, 1851. He wrote down and left us a Tauromachy. (TEN MASTERS by Bernardo V. Carande, Los Toros by Ed. Indice, page 115)