Retirement and Death
On June 13, 1893, he was unanimously elected the first president of the French Alliance of Buenos Aires, whose committee met at the French Club. On December 13, 1885, in the presence of the federal judge Juan del Campillo, he swore the oath of citizenship on the Constitution. He requested retirement benefits on October 14, 1889, on the justification of his advanced age and poor health, naturalized Argentine citizenship, and physical infirmity after thirty-one years of service. President Julio Argentino Roca granted his request with a decree signed on February 19, 1900.
In his final year of life, he recorded his agronomic reminiscences in an article, "Colonia San José - How it was Founded", written in October 1901 and published in the review Urquiza. He died at his home at 176 General Urquiza Street in Buenos Aires on August 27, 1902, of chronic myocarditis. His internment in the Western Cemetery was attended by Julio Argentino Roca, his aide-de-camp Colonel David Marambio Catán, and a large audience.
The Masonic Review, an independent organ of international freemasonry, published "In memoriam, the Illustrious and Honorable Dr. Alejo Peyret: this Republic and more immediately Argentine freemasonry have lost one of their greatest thinkers, an indefatigable apostle of liberalism. By special decree, the Argentine Orient elects the Powerful and Honorable Francisco F. Fernandez to speak in the name of national freemasonry. The name of the Honorable Peyret is engraved in the memory of those he has taught to cultivate knowledge and love justice and truth".
At the request of his heirs, Peyret's ashes were moved to the cemetery of San José on November 26, 1995. The only items in his will were a plot of land in San José and a fraction of the homestead zone at the same colony.
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