Acceso usuarios
Emilio Luis Lara López
Con los Borbones españoles se introducirán progresivamente los moldes culturales galos y nacerá un afrancesamiento cultural al que se adherirá gran parte de las élites ilustradas. Los terremotos continuados de la Revolución francesa y de la Guerra de la Convención alterarán la vida española en varias facetas, sobre todo debido a los emigrados franceses. Estos exiliados –sobre todo los clérigos– inculcarán en las capas populares un sentimiento contrarrevolucionario que el clero español convertirá en una animadversión francesa de tintes religiosos y xenófobos. Estos prejuicios latentes rebrotarán en 1808, lo que, en parte, ayudará a explicar la fulminante reacción antinapoleónica. Los afrancesados apostarán por la nueva monarquía bonapartista por razones políticas con la finalidad de regenerar el país. Los franceses residentes desde antaño en España sufrirán al principio de la guerra la ira de sus vecinos españoles o serán objeto de sospecha.
With the Spanish Bourbons, there was a gradual introduction of Gallic cultural forms that gave rise to Frenchification, or cultural afrancesamiento, which was supported by most of the enlightened elite. The continual upheavals of the French Revolution and of the War of the Pyrenees were to change Spanish life in several of its facets, due in particular to the French emigrants. These exiles –above all, the clergymen– instilled in the popular classes a counterrevolutionary feeling that the Spanish clergy was to turn into a resentment of the French with religious and xenophobic overtones. Such latent prejudices were to reappear in 1808, in part helping to explain the forceful anti-Napoleonic reaction. The afrancesados supported the new Napoleonic Monarchy for political reasons with the purpose of regenerating the country. French residents in Spain from long before had to endure the anger of their Spanish neighbours at the beginning of the war as well as live under the cloak of suspicion.
