Alfonso XIII

All right.

Political instability driven by street violence results in a coup d'état led by Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923 with the approval of King Alfonso XIII.

The dictatorship collapses, the king abdicates, and the second Spanish Revol- Republic is born in 1931.

From May 10th through May 13th, anarchists and communists burn down over 100 religious buildings, including the primary Jesuit monastery in Madrid.

He was not an oppressive ruler, executing no one during his seven years of power, and stepped down willingly when he concluded that he had lost much of his initial support.

But his sudden, unexpected departure left a vacuum which weak-willed, inexperienced King Alfonso XIII was unable to fill.

In municipal elections in April 1931, the cities rejected most monarchist candidates, though in the countryside most of them prevailed.

In a manner reminiscent of his unhappy predecessor Charles IV, who accepted a villa in France from Napoleon in return for his abdication on demand, Alfonso XIII declared, quoting, Sunday's elections have shown me that I no longer enjoy the love of my people.

I could very easily find means to support my royal powers among all comers, but I am determined to have nothing to do with setting one of my countrymen against another in a fratricidal civil war.

Thus, until the nation speaks, I shall deliberately suspend the use of my royal prerogatives.

Santiago Carrillo, a future leader of the Spanish Communist Party, was secretary of the Socialist Youth Organization.

Working through their natural ally, Largo Caballero, the communists were to gain rapidly growing influence in Spain during 1936.

These were the sins, these were the mistakes, this is why everything we did was wrong, right? So Spain went into that mental phase.

And more or less at the same time, King Alfonso XII will more or less just pass along power to his son, King Alfonso XIII.

And more or less at this period, there will be also a significant rise in intellectual life in Spain, trying to explain what happened.

Because there is this pessimism.

But

in a way, the father of the system and the key figure of the conservatives was Canovas del Castillo during the final quarter of the 19th century.

The key figure of the Spanish conservatives and therefore very influential in the system will be Antonio Maura during the first quarter of the 20th century under the king Alfonso XIII.

So it's not exactly 25 and 25 years because...

The clientele that came to Sulieu to eat those dishes reads like a roll call of the 20th century's most celebrated figures.

King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the Aga Khan, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the Comte de Paris, Sacha Guitry, Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Piaf, Colette, Maurice Chevalier, Charlie Chaplin, Vivian Leigh, Gary Cooper, Salvador Dali, who wrote months in advance to say he was coming in spring and wanted to eat what his king had eaten in spring and was served a cold saddle of hare with gooseberry jelly, which according to the files had been a great success with Alfonso XIII.

And on one occasion that sits differently to all the others, on a specific date in 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain stopped at the Côte d'Or on his way to Germany, which is a reminder that history passes through the great restaurants as it passes through everywhere else, and that the guests at the finest tables are not always the ones that you would choose.

The welcome at the Côte d'Or was one of its defining qualities, possibly the quality that distinguished it most clearly from other three-star restaurants of the era.

There he sat, the young king, a tall, slight youth with a pale, proud face and great black eyes, sad yet merry and tender.

A patrician face in every feature, yet a lovable one and one to arise all the loyalty and love of his subjects, as the character of Alfonso XIII arouses their respect and affection.

As the carriage paused at the entrance gate, the king looked up at the eager little group upon the wall and smiled.

Juanita and Pepita flung into his carriage their huge bouquets of flowers, and to the girls he threw a kiss.

The construction kicked off in 1901 and wrapped up by 1905.

The walkway was famously crossed by King Alfonso XIII in 1921 during the inauguration of a dam.

This pathway has seen some rough times by the early 2000s and was partly closed for over a decade.

Four years of renovations and 9 million euros later, it burst back onto the scene in 2015.