Afrancesado

Afrancesado (Spanish: [afɾanθeˈsaðo], Portuguese: [ɐfɾɐ̃sɨˈzaðu]; "<a href="/facts/Francophile/kVEShzLx">Francophile</a>" or "turned-<a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a>", lit. "Frenchified" or "French-alike") refers to the <a href="/facts/Spain/bIyrB8EY">Spanish</a> and <a href="/facts/Portugal/lYzwDQ63">Portuguese</a> partisan of <a href="/facts/Age_of_Enlightenment/Uj2Fa8Mk">Enlightenment</a> ideas, <a href="/facts/Liberalism/nj54a01U">Liberalism</a>, or the <a href="/facts/French_Revolution/PIkDlrC0">French Revolution</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Peninsular_War/7llD0qku">French occupation of Iberia</a> (<a href="/facts/History_of_Portugal_(1777%25E2%2580%25931834)/wblIucFS">Portugal</a> and <a href="/facts/Spain_under_Joseph_Bonaparte/GBL7fHpC">Spain</a>), preferring the reforms of the "<a href="/facts/Enlightened_absolutism/wF41QMrL">enlightened despots</a>" <a href="/facts/Napoleon/8TKBIjPM">Napoleon I</a> and his brother <a href="/facts/Joseph_Bonaparte/ECLveSKX">Joseph Bonaparte</a> (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.

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