Afrancesado
Sign in to savethumb|200px|Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte by [[François Gérard. Bonaparte was King of Spain from 1808 to 1814]] Afrancesado (, ; "Francophile" or "turned-French", lit. "Frenchified" or "French-alike") refers to the Spanish and Portuguese supporters of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, that supported Napoleon's occupation as a means to implant these ideas in Spain.
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- Spain
- Origins
- Political program
- Exile
- Notable Spanish ''afrancesados''
- Portugal
- References
thumb|200px|Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte by [[François Gérard. Bonaparte was King of Spain from 1808 to 1814]] Afrancesado (, ; "Francophile" or "turned-French", lit. "Frenchified" or "French-alike") refers to the Spanish and Portuguese supporters of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, that supported Napoleon's occupation as a means to implant these ideas in Spain.
In principle, afrancesados were upper-and-middle class supporters of the French occupation of Iberia (Portugal and Spain), preferring the reforms of the "enlightened despots" Napoleon I and his brother Joseph Bonaparte (installed by Napoleon as King of Spain) or, as a lesser evil, preferring to avoid the consequences of outright war with the greatest military power in Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afrancesado” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.