Evading incarceration, in early 1896 Corbató fled Spain. He was briefly hosted by the claimant in Venice, yet he settled permanently in Paris; he tried to make a living by teaching Latin, translations, editing antologies and providing religious service. Unable to manage "Monarquía" remotely he decided to close it. In 1896 he published "Dios, patria y rey o el catecismo del carlista"; the booklet presented Carlos VII as a model Christian king, determined to fight liberal tyranny, and was sold via Carlist channels in 1896–1898. During the Spanish-American war he zealously engaged in various patriotic initiatives and visited the Spanish embassy offering his own design of a torpedo. Intransigent as always, he denounced the Paris 1900 Universal Exposition as triumph of socialism, Judaism and freemasonry; even the Spanish hierarchy was not spared his venom as timid and not sufficiently committed. In 1899 Corbató published "Los Consejos del Cardenal Sancha"; the booklet was aimed against the primate and affirmed that only Carlism represented the genuine Catholic stand.