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Francisco Franco
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Francisco Franco was born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco Bahamonde on December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, Spain. His father, Nicolas, worked for the Spanish Navy and his mother, Maria, came from a family with a long line of naval connections. He had two brothers, Nicolas and Ramon, and a sister, Maria.
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Francisco Franco had been an integral part of their daily lives for almost four decades, giving little room for political as well as social transition. Yes, Spain had changed materially for the better from the impoverishment just after the Civil War to a relatively prosperous standard of living for most citizens in the mid seventies. Resentment against political conformity and inertness was ... brewing under the surface of a divided Spanish society.
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The dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975. The writers of the Franco era had tended to be realists, wanting to translate into print the destructiveness of the Civil War and its aftermath. Post-1975 Spanish writers were free to participate in literary currents that had been sweeping the rest of Europe for decades.
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Francisco Franco died on November 20, 1975 from natural cuases. He was succeeded by Juan Carlos, who had been a personal friend of Franco, and he restored democracy to the Spanish government.
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Back in El Ferrol, Francisco Franco, dressed in the pristine uniform of a second lieutenant, was posted to the local regiment there. After a few unsuccessful applications, Franco finally obtained a commission in Morocco. This event proved to be a major turning point in his life. Out of a whimpering whippet was born a lion. Here in the African desert ruthlessness hardened by hatred ruled the daily skirmishes veiled in blood.
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Francisco Franco, the son of a naval postmaster, was born in El Ferrol, Spain, on 4th December, 1892. Franco graduated from the Toledo Military Academy in 1910. Commissioned into the 8th Regiment he was posted to Morocco in 1913. Although physically small he proved to be a courageous officer and won rapid promotion.
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