La quiebral del régimen foral navarro bajo la ocupación francesa (1808-1814)

Abstract

French occupation saw an end to "foral" institutions in Navarra. From 1810 to 1814, military governments directly dependent on Napoleon’s generals were created in Navarra, thereby neutralising the Frenchified project which King José I was trying to impose from Madrid. Collaboration with these governments by the Navarran population was limited to the participation of a few bureaucrats in the distribution of supplies and other responsibilities which the French institutions performed in Navarran towns and villages. The legitimate Council had to flee Pamplona and set up on an itinerant basis in Ágreda, Tudela, Huesca and Arnedo, but was always in contact with the Central Council and later the Regency, its endeavour always being that of expelling the French from Navarra.