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Countess of Chinchon

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The countess of Chinchón almost always refers to one of two women, wives of a count of Chinchón:

  • The European discoverer, in 1638, of the South American native remedy chinchona bark, after whom the plant and bark are named
  • A woman the subject of a celebrated portrait by Goya in around 1800.
fr:Comtesse de Chinchon
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