Roque Barcia Martí
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Roque Barcia Martí was a Spanish writer and republican politician belonging first to the Democratic Party and then, during the Sexenio Democrático, to the Republican Federal Party.
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![Caricature by Tomás Padró Pedret for the magazine El Lío (August 1874), depicting the fate of the federal "intransigents" Juan Contreras y Román [es] and Roque Barcia after the cantonal insurrection, alongside the Spanish Draft Constitution of 1873, personified as the tree of paradise: Contreras is shown selling babouches in exile in Algerian Oran; Barcia as “the new Jeremías” amid the ruins of the Cartagena Artillery Depot, now turning his pen against the Cantonal movement he had previously defended; and, finally, the federal tree, mortally wounded by a bullet.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/El_cautivo_de_Or%C3%A1n_%E2%80%94_El_%C3%A1rbol_del_para%C3%ADso..._perdido_%E2%80%94_El_nuevo_Jerem%C3%ADas.jpg/1280px-El_cautivo_de_Or%C3%A1n_%E2%80%94_El_%C3%A1rbol_del_para%C3%ADso..._perdido_%E2%80%94_El_nuevo_Jerem%C3%ADas.jpg)
Caricature by Tomás Padró Pedret for the magazine El Lío (August 1874), depicting the fate of the federal "intransigents" Juan Contreras y Román [es] and Roque Barcia after the cantonal insurrection, alongside the Spanish Draft Constitution of 1873, personified as the tree of paradise: Contreras is shown selling babouches in exile in Algerian Oran; Barcia as “the new Jeremías” amid the ruins of the Cartagena Artillery Depot, now turning his pen against the Cantonal movement he had previously defended; and, finally, the federal tree, mortally wounded by a bullet.
Roque Barcia's tomb in Madrid, bearing his father's surname.
Cover of the Primer diccionario general etimológico (1880).Politicians from Spain 6
About this person
Roque Barcia Martí was a Spanish writer and republican politician belonging first to the Democratic Party and then, during the Sexenio Democrático, to the Republican Federal Party. He served as a deputy in the Cortes in 1869, 1871, and 1873, as a senator in 1872, and was a leading figure in the Cantón de Cartagena uprising.
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Politician
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1821 to 1885 · aged 63
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