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One of Barcelona’s grandest medieval streets, Carrer Montcada, populated by aristocrats from the 14th to the 16th centuries, is lined with Gothic palaces, each with an imposing door or arched gate to an inner court where an ornamental staircase usually led up to reception rooms.
The ambitions of Napoléon Bonaparte stretched as far as the Western Hemisphere, and an influx of French aristocrats buoyed French sentiments.
Under pressure from the poorer classes, who did not want the Revolution appropriated for the exclusive benefit of the bourgeoisie, the Jacobin-led revolutionary committee ordered sweeping measures of economic and social reform, which were accompanied by a wave of mass executions, the Terror, aimed at moderates as well as aristocrats.
Flowing in and out of 80 arched passageways known as vomitoria, aristocrats and plebs alike came to see blood: bears, lions, tigers, and leopards starved into fighting each other and against criminals, war captives, and (according to some historians) Christians.
But as a historian, I can't resist remarking that the cultivation of the inessential is a trademark of aristocratic societies (aristocrats deliberately spend their time on trifles to show that they can , and others can't), and that as charming as it appears to outsiders, most native members of the society are unlikely to be so well disposed, since the burden of the aristocracy falls on their shoulders.