Chinchilla Galarzo, Ainoa2025-11-262025-11-262023-03-21Chinchilla, A. (2023). Resilience and Revolution: The Defence of the Dynastic Interests of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma in the Changing World of the Late Eighteenth Century. In: Persson, F., Price, M., Recca, C. (eds) Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20123-3_11978-3-031-20123-3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20123-3_11https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30942The Spanish monarchs, Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma, were not immune to the fear that gripped the European monarchies in the face of the French Revolution. Where they differed was in the ways they tried to fend off the changes inherent in the process of ending the ancien régime, which could shake the foundations of their power in Spain. Their own correspondence, held in Archivo Histórico Nacional and the Archivo General de Palacio of Madrid, reveals how they tried to maintain their dynastic interests and their large overseas territories by an exercise in political pragmatism. At first they adopted the dynamics of confrontation, common to the majority of European monarchies; later they switched tactics, becoming the first court to be allied with the new French revolutionary government.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess5504.04 Historia modernacapítulo de libro