Por The years preceding the Mayo Revolution in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and even the conservative Córdoba, certain elements of daily life, linked to new scenarios, conversations and behaviours, are symptoms and actors of change in the political sphere. Simpler fashion tends to free the body from an acartonated style; the possibility of legally defending desired marriages or opposing taxes points to a freedom of body and soul; the exchange of ideas, starting to include European, local and even religious governments, announces an incipient freedom of expression and also freedom of conscience, born more of tolerance than of irreligion. The presence of the ‘other’ – particularly French and English detainees over long seasons in ports – asks about ‘us’, which varies during the pre-revolutionary crisis, so does not change the natural scene, which is of local colour. It is no coincidence, in the midst of Revolution, that the National Himno is tripleally invoking ‘freedom’ and presents the ‘great Argentinian people’ greeted by the foreign friends embodied in ‘the free of the world’.