L’hispaniste Antoine de Latour (1808-1881)

Latour spent twenty years in Spain; so he ended up being regarded, while remaining French for all to see, almost as a Spaniard. Great scholar, in constant contact with Spanish cultural circles, he was also the secretary of a key figure in Spanish politics of the nineteenth century: the Duke of Montp...

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Main Author: Manuel Bruña Cuevas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2013-06-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/4648
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description Latour spent twenty years in Spain; so he ended up being regarded, while remaining French for all to see, almost as a Spaniard. Great scholar, in constant contact with Spanish cultural circles, he was also the secretary of a key figure in Spanish politics of the nineteenth century: the Duke of Montpensier, son of King Louis-Philippe of France and pretender to the Spanish throne. In Spain, Latour was, therefore, a socially well-placed foreigner: he could help the Spanish writers to get the patronage of the Duke as well as publish articles about their work in the Parisian journals.
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