French Revolution spreads to Spain

I guess that liberal ideas had not spread to Spain yet. But how did the people in Spain think about the government then? Were they completely in the grip of the church, esp. the Jesuits?
 
But how did the people in Spain think about the government then? Were they completely in the grip of the church, esp. the Jesuits?

Some were, some weren't; the constitution proposed by the Cortes during the Penninsular War was pretty progressive, for instance.
 
I guess that liberal ideas had not spread to Spain yet. But how did the people in Spain think about the government then? Were they completely in the grip of the church, esp. the Jesuits?

The Jesuits had been BANNED in Spain for quite a while before the French Revolution, and IIRC a Spanish king pressured the Pope to disband them altogether (which was done for a while afterwards).
 
Oh, yeah, the old stereotype "the Spanish didn't have a revolution because they were backwards and controlled by the Church".

The actual reasons lie more in the fact that the kind of violent, more rupturist revolutionary ideas that had spread through France in the years preceding the revolution had not done so in Spain (that doesn't mean that there weren't liberals/reformists over here, just that they had a different approach in mind) and especially in the fact that Spain had not suffered economic problems derived from its intervention in the ARW the way France did. So, while Charles IV was every bit at dim as Louis XVI, the people wasn't just mad enough to drag him out and guillotine him. That's one thing that Napoleon never got about Spain, in fact.
 
I think Austria might be more likely. If I remember correctly they were very ticked with their king at the time. (Especially the Hungarians.)
 
I think Austria might be more likely. If I remember correctly they were very ticked with their king at the time. (Especially the Hungarians.)

It was not their king outside Hungary (and Bohemia, though in Bohemia he was Emperor too). Anyway, it was largely the nobility complaining about the Emperor being too damn progressive for their tastes, except in the Low Countries.
 
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