Francesc Pi i Margall was a Spanish federalist and republican politician and theorist who served as president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873. He was also a historian, philosopher, r
Pi in 1869
Pi proclaimed president. Drawing by Daniel Vierge. Engraving by Amédée Daudenarde.
Portrait of Pi by José Sánchez Pescador
The Cantonal Revolution was an attempt to establish a revolutionary federal republic, based on a decentralised system of cantons, in Spain in 1873.
Political cartoon from the satirical magazine La Flaca (3 March 1873) about the struggle between the radicals and the federal republicans, as well as the internal conflict between moderate and intransigent federal republicans
Cartoon in La Flaca in which Pi i Margall is depicted as a schoolteacher being overwhelmed by federalist children
The murder of Agustí Albors [ca; es], the mayor of Alcoi, during the Petroleum Revolution