 He achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel.In 1887 he was transferred to Lleida, where he met his wife, Eugènia Lamarca, daughter of Agapit Lamarca, with whom he had three children, Joan, Eugènia and Maria.On November 25, 1905, some Spanish army officers, in retaliation for a joke of the satirical Catalan journal ¡Cu-Cut!, assaulted and destroyed the offices of the magazine, as well as the ones of the Catalanist journal La Veu de Catalunya.