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Frédéric 1st (Luz), the present day French King of the Mapuches of Araucanía holds a photograph of Orelie - Antoine de Tounens, a French lawyer and adventurer who proclaimed by a decree in November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states and that a Kingdom of Araucanía was founded with himself as King. It is disputed whether Tounens was a self-proclaimed king or was elected by some Mapuche chiefs. Arrested on January 1862 by the Chilean authorities.