“La fundación de Asunción” o cómo escribir historia en la Asunción de 1890

This article analyzes the conceptions of history of the men of letters of the late nineteenth century in Paraguay through the criticisms made by Blas Garay to Alejandro Audibert on the date of the founding of Asuncion. The sociopolitical and historiographic framework that the historical criticisms imply both for the moment in which they occur, September 1894, and from a broader perspective that covers the postwar period, is developed in detail. The sources used are the articles published in the newspaper La Union, El Pueblo and La Libertad of September 1894.