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'''José Segundo Decoud Domecq''' (14 May 1848 – 3 March 1909) was a Paraguayan politician, journalist, diplomat and military officer. He is often considered one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 302-303}}{{sfn|Prado|2022|p= 97-98}} and was also one of the first liberals of the country. Decoud was one of the founders of the long-standing [[Colorado Party (Paraguay)|Colorado Party]], having been its first vice-president and having written its founding instrument.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 73-77}}
== Biography ==
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===Journalistic career===
José Segundo Decoud began his career in press soon after his return to Paraguay. Together with his brother Héctor Decoud, he started to work as editor and writer for the newspaper ''[[La Regeneración (Paraguay)|La Regeneración]]'' in 1869, which lasted until September 1870. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s he contributed to other newspapers such as ''La Reforma'' and ''La Opinión Pública''.{{sfn|Calzada|1913|p= 61}} His impactful texts were frequently republished in Argentine newspapers. Decoud also translated [[Joseph Alden]]'s ''The Science of Government in Connection with American Institutions'' to Spanish,<ref name="biblioteca paraguaya">{{cite book|title=Catálogo de la Biblioteca Paraguaya "Solano López"|date=1906|publisher=H. Kraus|isbn=9780274437306|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b90vAAAAYAAJ|access-date=2022-10-30}}</ref> and wrote books and articles such as ''Recuerdos históricos'', ''La amistad,'' ''Cuestiones Políticas y Económicas'', edited in 1876, and ''El patriotismo'', published in 1905.{{sfn|Calzada|1913|pp= 62-63}} When he died, in 1909, it is said that he had been preparing for some years to write a book that would discuss Paraguayan history from the colonial era to his time.{{sfn|Calzada|1913|p= 61}}
In 2014, the historian and diplomat Ricardo Scavone Yegros made a compilation of Decoud’s works and published them together with a critical study.
===Death===
Disillusioned with the direction of post-war Paraguayan politics, Decoud committed suicide in 1909, leaving a letter to his wife
{{Blockquote|text=The citizens of classical antiquity preferred death to a sterile life cut short by the low passions of men. I have thus conceived the idea of an immolation, as a personal sacrifice before the sacred area of the Homeland. Hopefully this holocaust closes the list of those who, having given their whole lives, also succumb offering their own death! Let the dead bury their dead!}}
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* {{cite book|last=Centurión|first=Carlos R.|year=1947|title=Historia de las letras paraguayas|publisher=Ayacucho}}
* {{cite book|last=Decoud|first=Hector F.|year=1925|title=Una década de vida nacional|publisher=H. Kraus|isbn=978-9-995-30859-9}}
* {{cite journal|last=Doratioto|first=Francisco|year=2005|title=Guerra e regeneração: três estudos sobre o Paraguai|volume=9|issue=2|journal=Diálogos|publisher=Universidade Católica de Brasília|doi=10.4025/dialogos.v9i2.157 |url=https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/article/view/41398/21714|language=pt|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book|last=Esteves|first=Gomes F.|year=1983|title=Historia contemporánea del Paraguay (1869-1920)|publisher=NAPA|isbn=978-9-992-55043-4}}
* {{cite book|title=Catálogo de la Biblioteca Paraguaya "Solano López"|year= 1906|publisher=H. Kraus|isbn=978-0-274-43730-6}}
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