Editing Francesc Macià (section)

===Early years===
Francesc Macià i Llussà was born in [[Vilanova i la Geltrú]], Catalonia, [[Spain]]. Shortly after the death of his father, when he was 16, he entered the Military Academy of Guadalajara to join the Corps of Engineers of the Spanish Army, specializing in bridges, railways and telegraphs. He requested to be transferred to Cuba but was sent several times to Barcelona, Madrid and Seville, rising from telegrapher to captain. As an officer in the Spanish army, he favored its modernization. He achieved the rank of [[lieutenant-colonel]]. In 1887 he was transferred to Lleida, where he met his wife, Eugènia Lamarca, daughter of Agapito Lamarca, with whom he had three children, Joan, Eugènia and Maria. 

On 25 November 1905, some Spanish army officers, in retaliation to a joke in the satirical Catalan journal [[¡Cu-Cut!]], [[¡Cu-Cut! incident|assaulted and destroyed the offices of the magazine]], as well as the offices of the Catalanist journal [[La Veu de Catalunya]]. The Spanish Government responded by creating a [[Law of Jurisdictions|Law of jurisdictions]] for the repression of crimes against the homeland and against the army, which caused various political groups to unite to form Solidaritat Catalana ([[Catalan Solidarity (1906)|'Catalan Solidarity']]). Macià publicly condemned the military's action. As a result, his officials transferred him to [[Santoña]], [[Cantabria]].<ref name="Sapiens121Macià">{{cite journal|last=Esculies |first=Joan |title=El cavaller de l'ideal |journal=Sàpiens |date=October 2012  |volume=121 |pages=22–28 |location=Barcelona |language=ca |issn=1695-2014}}</ref>

He ran as a member of Catalan Solidarity in the election of 21 April 1907 for Barcelona and Les Borges Blanques districts, where his family came from. The resounding victory of this formation (41 of the 44 deputies of Catalonia) took him in Santoña. He was re-elected deputy in 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1923. From the [[Spanish Congress]], he began to advocate for the regeneration of Spain, however, during his last years as a politician in Madrid, he moved from Catalan regionalist to left-wing independentist positions.<ref>Esculies, Joan. "Macià, el paradigma dels conversos a l'independentisme". Ara, 25-26 December 2013, p. 12.</ref>