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COUNT OF JOSE MARIA QUIEPO DE LLANO See also:RUIZ DE See also:SARAVIA See also:TORENO (1786-1843)  , See also:Spanish politician and historian, was See also:born at See also:Oviedo on the 25th of See also:November 1786 . His See also:family was wealthy and belonged to the most See also:ancient See also:nobility of See also:Asturias . His See also:mother, Dominga See also:Ruiz de See also:Saravia, had See also:property in the See also:province of See also:Cuenca . The son received a better See also:education in See also:classics, See also:mathematics and See also:modern See also:languages than was usual at that See also:time . The See also:young See also:viscount of See also:Mat arrosa, the See also:title he See also:bore in his See also:father's lifetime, was introduced to the writings of See also:Voltaire and See also:Rousseau by the See also:abbot of the See also:Benedictine See also:house of Monserrat in See also:Madrid . He was See also:present at Madrid when the See also:city See also:rose against See also:Murat on the 2nd of May 18o8, and took See also:part in the struggle which was the beginning of the See also:Peninsular See also:War . From Madrid he escaped to Asturias, and on the 3oth of May he embarked in a See also:Jersey See also:privateer at Gijon, with other delegates, in See also:order to ask for the help of See also:England against the See also:French . The deputation was enthusiastically received in See also:London . By the 3oth of See also:December he was back in Asturias, his father having died in the See also:interval . During the Peninsular War he saw some service in the first occupation of Asturias by the French, but he was mainly occupied by his duties as a member of the See also:Cortes . In 1809 he was at See also:Seville, where one of his uncles was a member of the central See also:Junta . In the following See also:year he was a See also:leader of the party which compelled the Regency to summon the Cortes—to which he was elected by Asturias See also:early in 1811 though he wanted some months of the legal See also:age of twenty-five .

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election was opposed by some of his own relatives who did not See also:share his advanced opinions, but it was ratified by the Cortes . See also:Toreno was conspicuous among the well-meaning men who framed the constitution of 1812, which was made as if it was meant for some imaginary See also:republic and not for See also:Catholic and monarchical See also:Spain . When See also:Ferdinand VII. returned from See also:prison in See also:France in 1814 Toreno foresaw a reaction, and put himself out of reach of the See also:king . He was the more an See also:object of suspicion because his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Porlier, perished in a See also:wild See also:attempt to support the constitution by force . Toreno remained in See also:exile till the outbreak of the revolution of 1820 . Between that year and 1823 he was in Spain serving in the restored Cortes, and experience had See also:abated his See also:radical ardour .. When the French intervened in 1823 Toreno had again to go into exile, and remained abroad till the king published the See also:amnesty of the 15th of See also:October 1832 . He returned See also:home in See also:July 1833, but remained on his estates till the king's See also:death on the 29th of See also:September . As hereditary See also:standard See also:bearer of Asturias (Alferez See also:Mayor) it See also:fell to him to proclaim the young See also:queen, See also:Isabella II . In 1834 his now moderate opinions pointed him out to the queen See also:regent, Maria See also:Christina, as a useful See also:man for See also:office . In See also:June 1834 he was See also:minister of See also:finance, and became See also:prime minister on the 7th of June . His See also:tenure of the premiership lasted only till the 14th of September of the same year, when the regent's attempt to retain a practically despotic See also:government under a thin constitutional See also:veil See also:broke down .

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remainder of his See also:life was spent in voluntary exile, and he died in See also:Paris on the 16th of September 1843 . As a politician he See also:felt the need for a revision of the worn out despotism which ruled till 18o8, but he was destitute of any real See also:political capacity . Toreno is chiefly remembered as the author of the See also:History of the Rising, War and Revolution of Spain, which he began between 1823 and 1832 and published in 1836–1838 in Paris . As a See also:work of military See also:criticism it is not of high value, and Toreno was prejudiced in favour of his colleagues of the Cortes, whose errors and excesses he shared in and excused . The See also:book is, however, written in excellent Castilian, and was compiled with See also:industry . It is See also:worth consulting as an See also:illustration of the time in which the author lived, as a patriotic Spanish view of the war, and for the prominence it gives to the political See also:side of the Peninsular War, which he justly treated as a revolution . A See also:biography by See also:Don See also:Antonio de Cueto is prefixed to the reprint of the Levantanziento guerra y revolution de Espana, in vol . 1xiv. of the Biblioteca de autores espanoles of Rivadeneyra (Madrid 1846-1880) .

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