Francisco Franco

Character Key Number: 
3421
Display Name: 
Francisco Franco
Sort Name: 
Franco, Francisco
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

First mentioned in The Mansion as "that one in Spain" on a list that includes "Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany" (183), included by name on the later "Hitler and Mussolini and Franco" (214), General Francisco Franco led the Fascist side in the Spanish Civil War, coming to power afterward as the country's right-wing dictator. He remained in power until the 1970s.

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