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and taken to Paris, where he was tried and convicted along with MaciĂ and forty other
Catalans. In 1927 he went into exile in Belgium. In 1928 Grassol and MaciĂ visited Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, New York and Cuba, where they helped draft the Interim Constitution of the Catalan Republic. In Havana he
313:(1936–39) Ventura Gassol tried to ensure the safety of various threatened people and to preserve religious monuments. Gassol went into exile in France by airplane on 23 October 1936, and announced his resignation from the Ministry of Culture on 17 December 1936. In 1937 he organized the
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in exile. In 1941 he was persecuted by the Nazis and spent three months in prison in Aix-en-Provence. After his release he made a secret move to
Lausanne. His wife and two children managed to go to Mexico, where his wife died in 1944.
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in France. He married Lucia Wilde in
Lausanne on 27 January 1947. In 1954 the Catalan deputies in Mexico elected him president of the government in exile, but he refused the post. He maintained good relations with the new president,
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in 1972. Democratic elections were held in Spain on 15 June 1977. Two weeks later
Grassol returned to Barcelona with his wife. He received many honors in Catalonia. He spent the last years of his life in Selva del Camp. He died in
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164:. In 1916 the Cultural Council of the City of Barcelona was established and Gassol was given a position in the office of Educational Technical Assistance. In 1918 he won a prize at the Floral Games of
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After his return Gassol rejoined the culture committee. In 1931 Grassol was one of the founders of the
Republican Left of Catalonia. He soon became a public figure due to his effective oratory. The
152:, Baix Camp, on 6 October 1893. He was enrolled in the Pontifical Seminary of Tarragona, where he received a humanistic education. He abandoned his ecclesiastical studies in 1913 and moved to
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proclaimed the
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195:). He also began to publish short stories and novels, although these were less successful than his poetry and drama. His 1923 collection of patriotic poem,
238:(Catalan Revolutionary Separatist Party). He returned to Belgium and in 1929 was living in Brussels, where he founded, helped by other exiles (especially
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was dictator of Spain from 1923 to 1930. In 1924 Gassol was threatened with jail and fled to France, where he became acquainted with
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