Abstract
It is consensually agreed among contemporary scholarship that although in July 1808 Napoleon hastily instituted a provisional assembly composed of well-established members of the Spanish social elite so as to write and approve a constitution, this document actually never really came into being. Indeed as it was never implemented, it is often considered that this constitution remained largely unknown to the Spanish people. This paper challenges this conception. It argues, on the contrary, that in both the occupied and the free regions of Spain under the reign of Joseph Bonaparte, it is likely that people had heard a lot about this constitution, much more than is generally acknowledged. We notably show that this constitution therefore bore upon the debates that took place within the Cortes of Cadix at that time. Submission date: 18/10/2008 Acceptance date: 21/12/2008
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