BIARRITZ VACATION

-To seek solace for his disappointments in Madrid, Rizal took a vacation in the resort city of Biarritz on the fabulous French Riviera. He was a guest of the rich Boustead family at its winter residence—Villa Eliada
· February, 1891- Rizal arrived in Biarritz
· Frustrated in romance, Rizal found consolation in writing. Evidently, while wooing Nellie and enjoying so “many magnificent moonlight nights” with her, he kept working on his second novel which he began to write in Calamba 1887
· March 29, 1891- the eve of his departure from Biarritz to Paris, he finished the manuscript of El
Filibusterismo
· March 30, 1891-Rizal bade farewell to the hospitable and friendly Bousteads and proceeded to Paris by train
· April 4, 1891-Rizal wrote to his friend, Jose Ma. Basa, in Hong Kong from Paris, expressing his desire to go to that British colony and practice ophthalmology in order to earn his living
· Middle of April, 1891- Rizal was back in Brussels
· Since abdicating his leadership in Madrid in January, 1891, owing to the intrigues of his jealous
compatriots, Rizal retired from the Propaganda Movement or reform crusade
· May 1, 1891-Rizal notified the Propaganda authorities in Manila to cancel his monthly allowance and
devote the money to some better cause
· Rizal’s notification was contained in a letter addressed to Mr. A.L. Lorena (pseudonym of Deodato
Arellano)
· May 30, 1891-revision of the finished manuscript of El Filibusterismo was mostly completed
· June 13, 1891-Rizal informed Basa that he was negotiating with a printing firm