Journaux intimes et mémoires en Espagne (milieu du XVIIIe-milieu du XIXe siècle)

Abstract

Although few diaries from the 18th and the beginning ofthe l9th century have come down to us, there are many memoirs available. Originally written to draw a flattering portrait of their authors for their heirs, they turned into political justifications with the War of Independence before becoming the main historical source for a public anxious to understand the events which led to the 1868 crisis and to get a better grasp of those events which played a part in the transition between the Ancien Régime and the age of liberalism in Spain.