THE ITINERARY OF A PRINCELY EXILE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
THE ITINERARY OF A PRINCELY EXILE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: This study present some key data from the life and work of Alexandru IoanCuza (1820-1873) - the first ruler and founder of the modern Romania state.We can find here biographical guidelines, his physical qualities as well as his merits asa ruler, which attracted a well-deserved, extraordinary and everlasting sympathy of hispeople but also the implacable animosity of his adversaries.Affected by the profound and vast reforms of the ruler, and also by his exceptionalpersonality of humane vibration, his political enemies gathered around formerrevolutionaryfreemasonsC.A. Rosetti and Ion C. Bratianu and organised the conspiracy of February 11th,1866 which forced the ruler to abdicate and take exile for 7 years, until his death.The itinerary through the country and abroad ends with underlining the actions of thisgreat ruler in favour of the ordinary people and the progress of the country, to thedimensions that none of his descendents as heads of state could ever reach.

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