Category:Afrancesados

Articles relating to the Afrancesados, Spaniards who supported Bonapartist rule in Spain during the Peninsular War. The term widely refers to the Spanish and Portuguese partisans of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, that supported Napoleon's occupation as a mean 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.