Revoluciones

Valle Inclán lo explicó en los versos modernistas de La marquesa Rosalinda. A diferencia de Francia, aquí no volaban libremente tras los boscajes, ni furtivos besos del Trianón, ni las ideas de Voltaire y Rousseau: con los ramajes de los boscajes, aquí hacía hogueras la Inquisición. El atraso económico, a pesar del imperio, y la intolerancia, crearon condiciones extremas para que las luces arraigaran en España y no obstante el esfuerzo de reforma del absolutismo ilustrado hizo posible esa tarea casi heroica. Una minoría intelectual encontró una estructura de oportunidad en la...

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Arranca el siglo XVIII y una nueva dinastía inicia su andadura con Felipe V para culminar con Carlos III y la Ilustración. Los ilustrados Floridablanca, Campomanes o Esquilache (que dará nombre al famoso motín), no lograrán imponer sus tesis. Tras la Revolución Francesa (1789), Napoleón ambicionó dominar Europa y en España la guerra contra los franceses hará que el pueblo español añore a Fernando VII «el deseado». Después vendrá la guerra de sucesión y posteriormente las carlistas. La debilidad española propiciaría que las colonias americanas se independicen de la...

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