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Afrancesado logo #21000 Afrancesado (lang, lang; `Francophiles` or `turned-French`, `Frenchified`) were the Spanish and Portuguese partisans of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, who were supporters of the French occupation of Iberia and of the First French Empire. ==Spain== ===Origins=== In Spain, the term afrancesado surfaced during the re...
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afrancesado logo #21003(from the article `Spain`) ...resistance to French power impossible, and those who considered that Napoleon might `regenerate` Spain by modern reforms. These groups became ...
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