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JOSE See also: Spanish author, was See also: born at See also: Utrera on the l8th of See also: November 1768 and studied with distinction at the university of Seville
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He took minor orders and was for some See also: time professor at the seminary of Vergara, but he became a convert to the doctrines of the French philosophes, scandalizing his acquaintances by his professions of materialism and his denunciations of celibacy
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His writings being brought before the Inquisition in 1792, See also: Marchena escaped to See also: Paris, where he is said to have collaborated with See also: Marat in L'Ami du peuple; at a later date he organized a revolutionary See also: movement at See also: Bayonne, returned to Paris, avowed his sympathies with the See also: Girondists, and refused the advances of Robespierre
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He acted as editor of L'Ami See also: des leis and other French See also: journals till 1799, when he was expelled from See also: France; he succeeded, however, in obtaining employment under See also: Moreau, upon whose fall in 1804 he declared himself a Bonapartist
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In 18o8 he accompanied See also: Murat to See also: Spain as private secretary; in this same See also: year he was imprisoned by the Inquisition, but was released by See also: Joseph See also: Bonaparte, who appointed him editor of the official Gaceta
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In 1813 Marchena retired to See also: Valencia, and thence to France, where he supported himself by translating into Spanish the See also: works of Montesquieu, See also: Rousseau, Voltaire and Volney
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The Liberal
See also: triumph of 182o opened Spain to him once more, but he was coldly received by the revolutionary party
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He died at
See also: MARCHES
See also: Madrid shortly before the 26th of See also: February 1821
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The See also: interest of his voluminous writings is almost wholly ephemeral, but they are excellent specimens of trenchant journalism
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His Fragmentum Petronii (See also: Basel, 1802), which purports to reconstruct missing passages in the current text of See also: Petronius, is a testimony to Marchena's See also: fine scholarship; but, by the irony of See also: fate, Marchena is best known by his ode to Christ Crucified, which breathes a spirit of profound and See also: tender piety
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