Author: REINOSO, Félix José.
Title: Examén de los delitos de infidelidad a la patria, imputados a los espa–oles sometidos baxo la dominación francesa.
Description: Auch: en la Imprenta de la S.ra Viuda de Duprat, 1816. 8vo. 16, 439, [1]p. Slight spotting on title page and preliminary leaves. Small marginal tear on pp. 181-2. not affecting text. Minor wormhole in last 4 leaves affecting an occasional letter. Contemporary tree calf; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers. Slight wear at edges and corners. ***** The major apologia for the Afrancesados ('Frenchified Spaniards') - the name for those in Spain who supported the rule of Joseph Bonaparte. Their numbers included prominent intellectuals such as Quintana, Meléndez Valdés, Lista and Moratín. Afrancesamieneto was born with the accession of the Bourbons as kings of Spain, and was a natural product of the the Encyclopaedist movement and the Enlightenment. The Afrancesados and the 'patriots' opposed each other on the dynastic question when Napoleon's armies occupied Spain in 1808. With the restoration of Ferdinand VII to Spain in 1814, the Afrancesados were dealt with according to the degree of their complicity with the Bonaparte regime; those who had already fled to France were not allowed to return until the amnesty of 1820. Reinoso was a Seville-born poet and priest, one of the founders of the Academia de Letras Humanas, and the author of La inocencia perdida, modelled on Milton's Paradise Lost.. - Ward, pp.6, 491-2. Palau 256750; Almirante p.275 (Madrid, 1842 ed.).

Keywords: Spain, France, Afrancesados, Joseph Bonaparte


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