Between Santa Engracia Street and the Paseo de la Castellana. District 7 (Chamberí). Rios Rosas neighborhood. We are in a sector of the Eixample Carlos María de Castro designed as a residence for the nobility and gentry. And indeed it is today one of the best and most expensive areas of Madrid, although they miss the odd green. The street is dedicated to the playwright trying Manuel Breton de los Herreros, who was born in the village of Quel Rioja, with Arnett, on December 19, 1796. He was a soldier, very young left the military and its poor economic situation led him to devote himself to the theater. It is seen that in the first third of the nineteenth century must be a good career opportunity. Initially his comedies are an important influence of the most important English writer of the time, Leandro Fernández de Moratinos highlighted his first work, like an old smallpox , written in 1824. Shortly after was caught in the whirlwind romance and for a time was devoted to melodrama ( Elena , 1835), but where it really found an important field to give free rein to his talent, was in the comedy of manners, written in the neoclassical style : Marcela or which of the three? (1831), Everything happens in this world (1835), The a newspaper (1836) or marriage School (1852). In 1836 he was appointed director of the newly established National Library and in 1840 entered the Royal English Academy. He died in Madrid on November 8, 1873.
