La vida cotidiana de Madrid en torno al Dos de Mayo

Laburpena

In the preceding weeks to the Second of May, the predominant feeling was rejection to the occupation of the town by the French. In order to consider the daily evolution of this feeling, the main collective life spaces, where the resistance was originated, both open ones –streets and squares involved in the attacks on the second of May– as well as inner ones (theatres, social gatherings, coffee-shops, pubs), are examined to take the pulse of the city through weeks in which the in crescendo tension led to the popular uprising. The population was subjected by Murat to a combined crossed effect of humiliation and repression, but the embers of the resistance against the French were not extinguished as they were fed by actual or imaginary news from abroad.