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BALAGUER, VICTOR (1824-19o1)

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BALAGUER, See also:VICTOR (1824-19o1) , See also:Spanish politician and author, was See also:born at See also:Barcelona on the 11th of See also:December 1824, and was educated at the university of his native See also:town. His precocity was remarkable ; his first dramatic See also:essay, Pepin el.jorobado, was placed on the Barcelona See also:stage when he was fourteen years of See also:age, and at nineteen he was publicly " crowned " after the See also:production of his second See also:play, See also:Don Enrique el Dadivoso. From 1843 to 1868 he was the See also:chief of the Liberal party in Barcelona, and as proprietor and editor of El Conseller did much to promote the growth of See also:local patriotism in See also:Catalonia. But it was not till 1857 that he wrote his first poem in Catalan—a copy of verses to the Virgin of See also:Montserrat. Henceforward he frequently adopted the See also:pseudonym of "lo Trovador de Montserrat"; in 1859 he helped to restore the " Juegos Florales," and in 1861 was proclaimed mestre de See also:gay saber. He was removed to See also:Madrid, took a prominent See also:part in See also:political See also:life, and in 1867 emigrated to See also:Provence. On the See also:expulsion of See also:Queen See also:Isabella, he returned to See also:Spain, represented See also:Manresa in the See also:Cortes, and in 1871-1872 was successively See also:minister of the colonies and of See also:finance. He resigned See also:office at the restoration, but finally followed his party in rallying to the See also:dynasty ; he was appointed See also:vice-See also:president of See also:congress, and was subsequently a senator. He died at Madrid on the 14th of See also:January 1901. See also:Long before his See also:death he had become alienated from the advanced school of Catalan nationalists, and endeavoured to explain away the severe See also:criticism of See also:Castile in which hisHistoria de Cataluna y de la See also:Corona de See also:Aragon (186o-1863) abounds. This See also:work, like his Historia politica y literaria de los trovadores (1878-1879), is inaccurate, partial and unscientific; but both books are attractively written and have done See also:great service to the cause which Balaguer once upheld. As a poet he is imitative reminiscences of See also:Quintana are noticeable in his patriotic songs, of Zorrilla in his See also:historical See also:ballads, of See also:Byron in his lyrical poems.

He wrote too hastily to satisfy See also:

artistic canons.; but if he has the faults he has also the merits of a See also:pioneer, and in Catalonia his name will endure.

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