Cinco artículos de Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres olvidados en la prensa francesa (1936)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to recover eight articles by Niceto Alcalá Zamora that remained ignored in the French newspaper L’Intransigeant. Before transferring them here translated, it has been considered appropriate to contextualize them in two sections. One refers to the public figure of the Cordovan politician with provided unknown information regarding his reception in French exile in August 1936. The other one deals with his means of survival in the French nation with his journalistic collaborations in different countries. As far as the content of the articles by don Niceto now recovered is concerned, they focus, like many of his of the time, on the faults of the politicians who surrounded him between 1931 and 1936 and on his own virtues; qualities that are always aimed at balancing the republic and avoiding an armed confrontation. Such an elevated concept of himself is evidence, although he is sometimes assisted by reason, of the great self-esteem that was always attached to the former president of the Spanish Republic.