Francisco Balagtas

:For the municipality in the Philippines named Balagtas, see Balagtas, Bulacan.

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Balagtas was again imprisoned when the housemaid of a man named Alfrez Lucas complained, saying that she disagreed with the practice of cutting the hair of the hired help. He was freed in 1860, whereupon he continued writing poetry until his death in 1862, at the age of 74.

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