 By the account of her biographer Simone Petrement, Weil was evacuated from the front after a matter of weeks because of an injury sustained in a cooking accident.The "Nacionales" or Nationalists, also called "insurgents", "rebels" or, by opponents, "Franquistas" or "fascists" —feared national fragmentation and opposed the separatist movements.They were chiefly defined by their anti-communism, which galvanised diverse or opposed movements like Falangists and monarchists.