Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri was born in Bacău in 1821, on 21 July (on 14 June according to Britannica), into a boyar family. He studied in Paris from 1834 to 1839, was one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement of 1848 in Moldavia and then had to go into exile. Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1859 and 1860, he pleaded in Paris and London for the recognition of the United Principalities, and was then appointed minister in Paris in 1885. He created Romanian social comedy and collected folk songs. He died at Mircești on 22 August 1890.

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• PoetryDoine și LăcrămioareVasile Alecsandri · 1853not translated into EnglishLiterature