El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón

During the invasion of Napoleon in Valencia and in the years which followed, the literature of popular nature was clearly used to mobilize the population against the French, the Frenchified and Napoleonic ideas. Vicent-Manuel Branchat, a practically unknown clergyman, was one of the writers who bett...

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Main Authors: Vicent Josep Escartí, Rafael Roca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2010-06-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/3180
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description During the invasion of Napoleon in Valencia and in the years which followed, the literature of popular nature was clearly used to mobilize the population against the French, the Frenchified and Napoleonic ideas. Vicent-Manuel Branchat, a practically unknown clergyman, was one of the writers who better illustrate this attitude: he wrote colloquia, conversations and even theatrical pieces with a clear anti-French and conservative ideology, between 1813 and 1819. Furthermore, due to popular character of the literary genres used, the choice of the Catalan language was imposed as it was reaching the masses who did not understand well the Castilian or French.
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El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
anti-French popular literature
anti-Napoleon literature
Valencian popular literature
Catalan literature
title El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
title_full El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
title_fullStr El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
title_full_unstemmed El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
title_short El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón
title_sort el clerigo valenciano vicent manuel branchat contra napoleon
topic anti-French popular literature
anti-Napoleon literature
Valencian popular literature
Catalan literature
url https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/3180
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