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T1 Amadeo I: the Republican King?
A1 Higueras Castañeda, Eduardo
A1 Sánchez Collantes, Sergio
K1 Historia
K1 History
K1 Política
K1 Political science
AB The North American journalist Ambrose Bierce published the successive entries of hisbiting The Devil’s Dictionary in a variety of newspapers between 1881 and 1906.Although the words that introduce this chapter appear on the very first pages of the bookthanks to pure alphabetical logic, they must have been amongst the last to be written. Thefirst meaning for the term ‘abdication’, in fact, was explicitly dedicated to the death ofthe former queen of Spain, Isabel II, which occurred in Paris in 1904. Bierce later wrotethe second meaning, which does not appear in all the editions of the book. Here, he didnot only allude to only ‘poor Isabel’, but also condensed a conspicuously recurrenttradition in recent Spanish history in a single satirical definition. At that time, the latestSpanish king to carry on the tradition was the successor to Isabel II, Amadeo I of Savoy,although technically speaking, the duke of Aosta never abdicated. According to theConstitution of 1869, that required an uncomfortable parliamentary procedure. AmadeoI simply renounced the Crown, leaving the way open for the proclamation of the FirstSpanish Republic.
PB Routledge
SN 978-0-367-40990-6
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8604
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8604
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 11-may-2024