De la Bisbal al front d'Aragó: Narcís Lloveras Plaja, corresponsal de l'Autonomista de Girona

Narcís Lloveras Plaja (1876-1947) was a local correspondent who, during
the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and the Second Spanish Republic, worked
out of the town La Bisbal (in the Empordà region of Catalonia) for the Girona
federal republican newspaper El Autonomista, which became LAutonomista
in 1933. From 1922 to 1936 Lloveras published weekly articles,
which focused mainly on municipal politics. Although his articles had to
pass the filter of the dictatorship censor, he had difficulties with the
mayor and was the target of a government sanction, which was lifted
thanks to the support of the journalists association and the editors-inchief
of the Girona newspapers. When he was 60 years old and the Spanish
Civil War had broken out, he volunteered and went to the Aragon
front as a member of the Macià-Companys Division of Esquerra Republicana
of Catalonia. During the first year there, numerous reports of his were
published. In January 1939 he went into exile in Ceret, France, where he
died in January 1947.