¿Quantité négligeable o rival terrible?: la imagen francesa de la España primorriverista

The diplomatic reports issued from the French Embassy in Spain during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship emphasize two affairs that capture the attention of Inter-War Period Europe: First, the Morocco issue, in which both national colonial interests and geo-strategic interests of the Mediterranean powers were at stake, specially the expansionist interests of Mussolini’s Italy. Second, the fear of communism, which had an influence on the drift towards authoritarianism of most European countries. The aim of this work is to analyse those reports from the perspective of the image of Spain projected by ambassadors, consuls and attaches, not only as a source for understanding the decision-making process of the French governments, but also as a way of obtaining a new viewpoint, always to be taken into account, of the country’s domestic events.