A perseguição aos magistrados régios no rescaldo da primeira invasão francesa. O caso do Alentejo

Abstract

This study attempts to explain the persecutions against regal territorial magistrates in popular anti-French insurrections context, broken out in all country in the last months of Portuguese occupation by Napoleonic army. It examines this occurrence in Alentejo Province during the most disturbed social tumults that took place in June and July 1808.

Keywords

• french invasions
• Alentejo
• popular riots
• regal magistrates