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Francesc Camb i Batlle was a conservative Catalan politician, founder and leader of the autonomist party Lliga Regionalista. He was minister in several Spanish governments. He also supported a number of artistic and cultural endeavours, especially, the translation of Greek and Latin classical texts to Catalan.

Francesc Camb was born in Verges in the comarca of Baix Empord, Catalonia, Spain. He founded the Lliga Regionalista, a regionalist conservative party, in 1901. He was one of the first to propose an autonomous system of government for Catalonia, although, at the time, he only managed to achieve a fusion of the four provincial entities in Catalonia , with limited power. He was elected a member of the Spanish parliament several times, and was twice appointed minister in a Spanish conservative government.

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