by those years, the spanish government demanded that the french tightly control olazábal and his son-in-law, julio de urquijo e ibarra. as paris was upset with olazábal’s public criticism of the republican secular education system, in october 1910 he was ordered to move north of the loire; his duties were taken over by urquijo, permitted to stay in the south. it was only in may 1911 that he was allowed to come back to labourd, though some sources claim he was expulsed from france in 1912.