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Ban of Marshal MacDonald

Date
1810
Archive
Municipal Archive of Hospitalet de Llobregat
Document type
Produccions Impreses
Reference code
CAT-AMHL-101-U310-1810-sn
Link to the online document
Description

A ban was a public announcement that an administration put out for the knowledge of the population. In this case, it is a ban by the French authorities who occupied Catalonia during the French War, a European conflict in the framework of the Napoleonic wars. It stands out because the same text appears twice: once in French and another in Catalan. On the other hand, curiously the governor of Catalonia was a French military man of Scottish roots: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph Macdonald.