El gobierno de Gipuzkoa: entre la tradición y el cambio (1808-1814)

Abstract

The government of Joseph Bonaparte, installed after the French domination of Gipuzkoa, profoundly and gradually altered Gipuzkoa’s autonomous institutions, removing the Councils by forbidding them to be called, and removing the Provincial Council in 1810. The Government of Bizkaia, under General Thouvenot, created a network of political institutions which considerably changed the system as it had been under the Ancien Regime. The later government of the Regency also modified the province’s institutions which, although it did manage to regain its fundamental institutions, the Councils and the Provincial Councils, also had to take on board the 1812 Constitution’s budgets, until the return of Ferdinand VII allowed it to recover all the institutions it had until 1808, especially the confirmation of its autonomous laws in 1814.