25.9.2019

Paris (France)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation will host, in the coming weeks, an act of reception of the table in which Manuel Azaña signed his resignation as president of the Second Republic and of tribute to Azaña himself, who died in exile in 1939.

The head of the acting Global Spanish Secretary of State, Irene Lozano, has decorated at the Spanish Embassy in Paris Luc Franzoni, who has donated the table to Spain. In the act, Irene Lozano highlighted the historical and symbolic value of the piece and recalled the words of Azaña in which he called on future generations to reflect on "those men who have fallen drunk in the battle fighting magnanimously for a grandiose ideal and who now, sheltered in the motherland, no longer have hatred". Franzoni is a member of the family that rented to Manuel Azaña the house in which he spent his first months in exile, and has kept the piece for eighty years.

The table will soon travel to Madrid where it will become part of the Spanish historical memory. "I would like to see this table perhaps as an element that advocates the possibility that, around a table, in Spain we all sit down to all the conversations that are pending and that are so important for politics," said Lozano.