Maria de la Paz Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (died 3 or 6 October 1892) was a Philippine

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and wife of Filipino painter

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. Though born in the Philippines, she and her family moved to

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some time after her father Félix's death in 1864. She had two children with Luna: Andrés and María de la Paz, though the latter died when she was three years old. On 22 September 1892, after being accused of adultery, de Tavera was shot by Luna in their

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in alongside her mother Juliana Gorricho and her brother Félix, with the latter surviving the incident. De Tavera died from her gunshot wounds eleven days after the said incident, in a hospital.

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{{Authority control 1860s births 1892 deaths 19th-century Filipino women Deaths by firearm in France Filipino expatriates in France Filipino people of Portuguese descent