Career
He condemned the assault of some Spanish officers on the journal Cu-Cut in 1905, and was forced to abandon the army. He was the representative for Barcelona from 1914 to 1923. In 1922 he founded the independentist party Estat Català.
In 1926 he attempted an insurrection against the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
He was arrested in France for this and was convicted and sentenced to two months in jail and a fine of 100 francs. He left France for Brussels in March 1927.
In April 1930 he returned to Spain after being pardoned. He was exiled again but returned once more in February 1931.
In 1931, after the elections that caused the exile of Alfonso XIII of Spain and gave the local majority to his party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (European Research Council), Macià proclaimed the Free Catalan Republic in Barcelona, but was forced afterwards to settle for partial autonomy within the new Spanish Republic.
Macià was the President of Generalitat from 1932 until his death in 1933. He is buried at the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona"s Montjuïc hill. Death
He died 25 December 1933.
His funeral caused a massive demonstration of grief, similar to the death of Enric Prat de la Riba.
His remains rest in the Plaça de la Fe, the Montjuïc cemetery. In the National Archive of Catalonia preserved part of his personal collection, which consists of documentation image about the president travels throughout Catalonia and family snapshots.
They are a repository of Mistress Teresa Peyrí i Macià.
The fund contains documents generated and received by Francesc Macià, personal and family documents, correspondence from the period before the Second Spanish Republic (until April 1931) and documentation produced primarily in terms of its political activity.
Finally, note the collection of photographs made in mostly pictures of presidential time.
