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Tondo Manila: Les Misérables Le Juif Errant Noli Me Tángere El Filibusterismo

Andres Bonifacio was born in 1863 in Manila and worked various jobs including making fans and posters. He was self-educated by reading books on topics like the French Revolution and books by Jose Rizal. He worked for British and German trading firms eventually becoming a broker.

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Tondo Manila: Les Misérables Le Juif Errant Noli Me Tángere El Filibusterismo

Andres Bonifacio was born in 1863 in Manila and worked various jobs including making fans and posters. He was self-educated by reading books on topics like the French Revolution and books by Jose Rizal. He worked for British and German trading firms eventually becoming a broker.

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Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro was born on November 30, 1863, in 

Tondo, Manila,[11] and was the first


of six children of Catalina de Castro, a Spanish Mestiza, and Santiago Bonifacio, [12] an Alkalde[13] of
Tondo.[4][14] He learned the alphabet through his aunt. He was later enrolled in Guillermo Osmeña's
private school,[15][16] and learned English while employed as a clerk-messenger by a British firm.
[17]
 Some sources assert that he was orphaned at an early age, [18][19] but, considering the existence of
an 1881 record that has Bonifacio's parents listed as living in Tondo, it is disputed by others. [20]
To support his family financially, Bonifacio made canes and paper fans which he and his young
siblings sold (after they were orphaned, according to the traditional view). [21] He also made posters
for business firms. This became their thriving family business that continued when the men of the
family, namely Andres, Ciriaco, Procopio, and Troadio, were employed with private and government
companies, which provided them with decent living conditions. [22]
In his late teens, he worked as a mandatario (agent) for the British trading firm Fleming and
Company,[23] where he rose to become a corredor (broker) of tar, rattan and other goods. He later
transferred to Fressell and Company, a German trading firm, where he worked as
a bodeguero (storehouse keeper) responsible for warehouse inventory. He was also a theater
actor and often played the role of Bernardo Carpio, a fictional character in Tagalog folklore. [24]
Not finishing his formal education, Bonifacio turned to self-education by reading books. He read
books about the French Revolution, biographies of the presidents of the United States, books about
contemporary Philippine penal and civil codes, and novels such as Victor Hugo's Les
Misérables, Eugène Sue's Le Juif errant and José Rizal's Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo.
Aside from Tagalog and Spanish, he could speak and understand English, which he learned while
working at J.M. Fleming and Co.[25][self-published source?]

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