A Circle of Friends: Romanian Revolutionaries and Political Exile, 1840-1859 (Balkan Studies Library)

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A study of Romanian revolutionaries exiled after the European insurrections of 1848. Drawing on their memoirs and private correspondence, it reveals the transnational links they established with French republicans, English radicals and Italian freedom-fighters in their attempts to build the modern Romanian nation CONTENTS List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE STUDENTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES 1844-1848 Jules Michelet, “Madame Rosetti”, 1855 1837–1841: Early Diplomatic Ventures 1844–1848: The Collège de France: Sociability and Protest Jules Michelet and ‘Les Franco-Roumains’: Dumitru Brătianu 1848 in Paris and Europe 1848–1849: Bucharest between St. Petersburg andConstantinople A Transylvanian Interlude 1848: Epilogue PART TWO EXILE 1849-1855 1849, Paris: Early Days in Exile 1849: Dumitru Brătianu and the English ‘philo-Romanians’ Hungarians and Romanians in 1849–1850 April 1849: The Transylvanian Debacle July–August 1849 September 1849 December 1849 1850: ‘La Roumanie’ April–September 1850 1851: London. Mazzini’s European Democratic Committee 1851: London-Bucharest-Paris 1852: Nantes-Paris-Bucharest 1853: Nantes-Paris-London 1853: Paris: “Madame Rosetti” 1853–1854: Paris: Ion Brătianu and the ‘Hippodrome Affair’ 1853: Paris-Gallipoli-Constantinople: Rosetti’s War January–February 1854: London January 1854: Serbia The Crimean War The Daily News and the Romanian Principalities The End of the War and the Peace Conference PART THREE THE RETURN OF THE EXILES 1856-1857 A Republican Funeral The Ad-hoc Assemblies and the European Commissioners July 1856 6 October: The Brighton Meeting 1857 The Elections 1858: The Congress of Paris and the Union of thePrincipalities EPILOGUE After Exile The Uses of the Press The ‘People Question’ The Uses of Exile Liberalism in Romania Conclusions Bibliography Index