Manuel Silvela y Le Vielleuze (Paris

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, Kingdom of France

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, 9 March 1830 - Madrid

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, Kingdom of Spain, 25 May 1892) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, writer and journalist who held several importante governmental offices, such as Minister of State

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 and Councillor of State.

Silvela was son of the prominent lawyer Francisco Agustín Silvela y Blanco and wife Luisa de le Vielleuze y Sotés, and brother of the also politician Francisco Silvela. He was awarded the Collar of the Order of Charles III and the Great Crosses of Orders of the Légion d'Honneur

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, Pius X

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, the Red Eagle

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, Saints Maurice and Lazarus

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, Leopold of Belgium, Leopold of Austria

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, the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa

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, the Rose

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, St. Olav, the Zähringer Lion

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, the Lion and the Sun

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, Burma

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 and St. Charles

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, among others.

Works

• Sin Nombre (1868), Recopilación de artículos literarios.
• Reseña analítica de las obras póstumas del memorable dramaturgo, reformador de nuestro teatro (1868)
• Le Jury Criminel en Espagne (Montpellier, 1884)
• Obras completas de Moratín, con notas y comentarios (Madrid, 1890)
• El bautizo de un libro
• El perfecto novelista
• Un verano de Felipe V
• Recuerdos de Extremadura
• Revista cantábrica (1869)
• Salir de Madrid (1851)
• La Alcarria
• Mañanas de La Granja
• Revista del Escorial
• Variaciones fáciles
• Sobre el conocido tema "El amor y el matrimonio"
• Un viaje por regiones desconocidas
• De la influencia de las construcciones modernas en la literatura
• De Madrid a Sevilla y Cádiz
• Literatura infinitesimal
• El abogado de pobres
• Revista de La Granja
• Cuatro capítulos de una novela inédita
• Desde Madrid a Toledo (1854)
• El castillo de <>
• Una Dalia y un puntapié
• La Opera y el Gobierno (1865)
• Apuntes críticos acerca de las poesías de Baeza, y por incidencia de las condiciones literarias del siglo
• El diccionario y la gastronomía
• Miscelánea
• La prensa ilustrada
• Un ukase
• Revista de la exposición de Bellas Artes (1868)
• Juicio crítico de la Restauración en 1881
• Los dineros del sacristán
• Al amor de la lumbre
• Negro y blanco (1851)
• La via sacra
• Recuerdos de Spa
• Disertación acerca de la influencia ejercida en el idioma y en el teatro español por la escuela clásica que floreció desde los comienzos del S.XVIII
• Un talego del Estado o el estado de un talego
• Sobre el diccionario de la Real Academia Española
• Fin de una polémica
• Ultimas palabras sobre una polémica
• En las aguas de Spa (1887)
• ¡Viva Galicia!

Sources

• Spanish Senate. Personal dossier of D. Manuel Silvela

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