Francisco Bilbao
Francisco Bilbao (Santiago of Chile the January 9th 1823 - Buenos Aires, Argentinian the February 19th 1865), was a writer and a politicking Chilean; its liberal ideas were worth to him the name of Apôtre of freedom and perhaps considered as a precursor of Chilean independence. It is also at the origin of the formulation “Latin America”.
Francisco has French origins: he was the grandson of French Antoine Beyner. In its youth he studied within Instituto Nacional of Chile and with Lima where his/her father resided. He followed to the Chile, the teaching of Sociedad of Igualdad and Jose Victorino Lastarria. Publication in 1844 of its article Chilean Company because a great scandal, and the the Cortes (Parliaments) Chilean considered to be it immoral and blasphématoire. He is condemned. Voluntarily exiled to Paris, it comes into contact with Lamennais, Michelet and Edgar Quinet. It becomes acquainted also with the Colombian Santiago Arcos and is shown impassioned by the French revolution of 1789. It takes besides the nickname of Vergniaud.
Of return to the Chile in 1850, it occupied a public office, but its principal interest was different: it was devoted to the formation of a radical movement to be durably opposed to the preserving policy Diego Portales. With the assistance of a group of friends, and in particular Santiago Arcos, it is at the origin of the Sociedad of Igualdad (Company of the Equality), group which diffuses the socialist theses in the liberal circles, and which quickly reached the sixty members. The movement supports the current of opposition which the candidature of Manuel Montt carried.
The company was dissolved and Bilbao passed in clandestinity. Its criticisms formulated with regard to the Catholic religion, particularly in its " Boletines LED espíritu " (“Bulletins of the spirit”) 1850 were worth excommunication to him. Bilbao took share with the missed mutiny of the April 20th 1851 in Santiago. It then gained the Peru, where there remained a time before gaining Europe for one second time (1855-57), before being established in Argentina. It devoted its last years to the writing.
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