Francesc Macià i Llussà

Infobox_Politician
name = Francesc Macià i Llussà

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birth_date = birth date|1859|10|21|df=y
birth_place = Vilanova i la Geltrú, Garraf
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death_date = death date and age|1933|12|25|1859|10|21|df=y
death_place = Barcelona
office = 122^nd President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
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term_start = December 14, 1932
term_end = December 25, 1933
predecessor = Josep de Vilamala
successor = Lluís Companys
office2 = 3^rd Acting President of the Catalan Republic
salary2 =
term_start2 = April 14, 1931
term_end2 = April 28, 1931
predecessor2 = Estanislao Figueras
In 1873
successor2 = Lluís Companys i Jover
In 1934
office3 = Acting President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
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term_start3 = April 28, 1931
term_end3 = December 14, 1932
predecessor3 = "himself"
As Acting President of the Catalan Republic
successor3 = "himself"
As President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
party = Estat Català ERC
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spouse = Eugènia Lamarca
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Francesc Macià i Llussà (October 21, 1859 - December 25, 1933) was a Catalan soldier, politician and President of the Catalan government.

Life

He achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Spanish army. He condemned the assault of some Spanish officers on the journal "La Veu de Catalunya" in 1905, and was forced to abandon the army.

He was the representative for Barcelona from 1914 to 1923.

In 1922 he founded the independentist party Estat Català.

In 1926 he attempted an insurrection against the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. This uprising was based in Prats de Molló (Roussillon). Although it was aborted by the French Gendarmerie, it gained a lot of popularity for his cause in Catalonia.

In 1931, after the elections that caused the exile of Alfonso XIII of Spain and gave the local majority to his party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Macià proclaimed the "Free Catalan Republic" in Barcelona, but was forced afterwards to settle for partial autonomy within the new Spanish Republic. Macià was the President of Generalitat from 1932 until his death in 1933. He is buried in the Cementiri del Sud-Oest on Barcelona's Montjuïc.

See also

*Plaça de Francesc Macià, Barcelona

External links

* [http://www.unitat.org/patriotes/macia.html Biography] (Catalan)
* [http://www.esquerra.org/alcanar/pagines/esquerra/sons/republica.mp3 Macià proclaming the Catalan Republic]