STUDENT BRAVERY IN NAPOLEONIC WARS

Rey, Joaquín: Oratiunculae habitae ad Academiam Cervariensem in solemnibus docturae petitionibus pro candidatorum commendatione, a Joachimo Rey, iur. civ. doct. et s. s. can. in eadem academia professore. Cervariae Lacetanorum: typis academicis excudebat Josephus Casanovas 1821.

Commendatory speeches given for fourteen doctoral candidates at the University of Cervera between the years 1816 and 1820. Joaquín Rey (1775-1850), professor of canon law at the university, celebrates the valour of students fighting against the Napoleonic troops in the Peninsular War. Notably, the doctoral candidate José Mata, so we learn from Rey's speech, borrowed a horse and a weapon from his father and helped try to save the Catalan town of Figueras from a Napoleonic siege. He was captured and taken to Belgium, but escaped back to Spain, journeying at night through France. He took up arms again, later returning to study at the university.

Rey later became a Senator and (from 1846) Rector of the University of Barcelona. He also became Regent of the Audiencia of Mallorca.

Details

4to., pp. [2] VI, 63 [1]. Contemporary or early repair to top margin (blank), p. III, else very good, bound in modern marbled boards.

CCPB000548187-2. Palau 265103. One copy (01/18) on OCLC (Madrid, BN). See Vila, 297, 368.