Once his government ended, Alvear settled in 1930 in Paris, a city that he was passionate about personally. Installed in Europe, his relatives sent him letters from Argentina explaining the chaotic situation in which the country's politics was, such as the deteriorated figure of Hipólito Yrigoyen. This is how he learned about the coup d'état by José Félix Uriburu. This fact had not surprised him, since the economic crisis of 1929 and the lack of reaction on the part of an elderly and ill Yrigoyen had rapidly deteriorated his power. During the period from 1928 until the coup occurred in 1930, Alvear was informed of the Argentine political situation only through the numerous letters sent to him by his friends - in most cases from the anti-personalists most opposed to Yrigoyen. - which for the most part described to him a much more chaotic situation than it really was.