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FLORIDABLANCA, DON JOSE MORINO Y REDONDO, COUNT OF (1728-1808)

FLORIDABLANCA, See also:
DON
DON (anc. Tanais)
DON JOSE MORINO Y REDONDO, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT OF (1728-1808) , See also:

SPANISH

Spanish statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

MURCIA

Murcia in 1728. He was the son of a retired See also:

army officer, and received a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

EDUCATION

education, which he completed at the university of See also:

Salamanca, especially applying himself to the study of See also:

law. For a See also:

time he followed the profession of an See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate, and acquired a high reputation. A more public career was opened to him by the See also:

MARQUIS

marquis of Esquilache, then See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

state, who sent him See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador to See also:

Pope See also:

Clement XIV. Successful in his See also:

MISSION

mission, he was soon after appointed by See also:

Charles III. successor to his See also:

PATRON

patron, and his See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration was one of the most brilliant See also:

Spain had ever seen. He regulated the See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police of See also:

MADRID

Madrid, reformed many abuses, projected canals, established many See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies of See also:

agriculture and See also:

ECONOMY

economy and many philanthropical institutions, and gave encouragement to learning, See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and the See also:

FINE

fine arts. See also:

Commerce flourished anew under his See also:

RULE

rule, and the See also:

long-See also:

STANDING

standing disputes with See also:

PORTUGAL

Portugal about the See also:

South See also:

AMERICAN

American colonies were settled. He sought to strengthen the See also:

ALLIANCE

alliance of Spain with Portugal by a See also:

double See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage between the members of the royal houses, designing by this arrangement to See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place ultimately a Spanish See also:

prince on the See also:

THRONE

throne of Portugal. But in this he failed. Floridablanca was the right-See also:

hand See also:

man of See also:

King Charles III. in his policy of domestic reform, and was much under the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

French philosophes and economic writers. Like other re-formers of that school he was a strong supporter of the royal authority and a convinced See also:

PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan of benevolent despotism. The French Revolution frightened him into reaction, and he advocated the support of the first See also:

COALITION (Lat. coalitio, the verbal substantive of coalescere, to grow together)

coalition against See also:

France.

He retained his See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office for three years under Charles IV.; but in 1792, through the influence of the favourite See also:

GODOY, ALVAREZ DE FARIA, RIOS SANCHEZ Y ZARZOSA, MANUEL DE (1767-1851)

Godoy, he was dismissed and imprisoned in the See also:

castle of Pampeluna. Here he was saved from See also:

STARVATION

starvation only by the intervention of his See also:

BROTHER

brother. He was afterwards allowed to retire to his estates, and remained in seclusion till the French invasion of 18o8. He was then called by his countrymen to take the See also:

PRESIDENCY

presidency of the central See also:

JUNTA (from juntar, to join)

junta. But his strength failed him, and he died at See also:

Seville on the loth of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November of the same yea He See also:

LEFT

left several See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

TREATISES

treatises on See also:

jurisprudence. See Obras originates del See also:

Conde de Floridablanca, edited, with See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical introduction, by A. Ferrer del Rio; in the Bi,,lioteca de Rivadeneyra, vol. lix.

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