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JOSE See also:MARCHENA See also:RUIZ DE See also:CASTRO (1768-1821?)
, 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 See also:Seville
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He took See also:minor orders and was for some See also:time See also:professor at the See also:seminary of Vergara, but he became a convert to the doctrines of the See also:French philosophes, scandalizing his acquaintances by his professions of See also:materialism and his denunciations of See also:celibacy
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His writings being brought before the See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:Montesquieu, See also: |
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