CALOMARDE, ks'Vemhn'd:1, FRANCISCO TA DEO. Count (1775-1842). A Spanish statesman. He was born at Villel, in Aragon, studied in Saragossa. and became an advocate. During the wars of Napoleon he remained loyal to the na tional cause, and after the expulsion of the French and the return of Ferdinand V11. in 1814, Calomardc was among the first to hurry to Aragon and do homage to him as absolute monarch. As a reward of his obsequious celer ity he obtained a post in the Council for the Indies, but lost it on account of accepting a bribe. (In the restoration of the Constitution in 1S20 he unsuccessfully courted the favor of the Liberals; but when the French Army in 1823 restored the authority of Ferdinand VII. Cabo marde was appointed secretary of the cdmara del real pat roan to, one of the most influen tial offices in the kingdom. Not long after the King made him Minister of Justice. While he
held this office he showed himself an un•ompro mising enemy of free thought and progress. and a friend of the old ecclesiastical supremacy. He also secretly favored the party of Don Carlos, but by treating any unseasonable outbreak with great cruelty he preserved himself front the sus picion of being implicated in Carlist schemes. In 1832, when Ferdinand was supposed to be on his deathbed. he was prevailed on by Calomarde to reintroduce the Salle law, hy which the In fanta Isabella was excluded from the throne, and Don Callas, the favorite of the Absolutists, was appointed successor. The unexpected recov ery of the King frustrated Calomarde's schemes, and he fled in disgrace to Fro nee. lle died in Toulouse. Consult .Cardenas, I ids de Caloniurde (Madrid, B4149).