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Their Dinasty started with Felipe V, after the Spanish war of Succession and the Treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt.
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He was an absolute monarch. He centralised the government of Spain. He abolished the traditional laws (fueros). He suffered from depression and remained obsessed with recovering territory in Europe.
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He was an absolute monarch. He maintained a position of neutrality in external conflicts. His reign was a period of administrative reform.
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He was an enlightened despot King. He brought many ideas of the Enlightenment to Spain. He modernised the economy, did educational reforms, founded factories... He did many changes to Madrid city: sewage system, new buildings.
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His wife and his valido, Godoy, governed in his name. He was deposed by Napoleon.
