I.C. Bratianu

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IC Bratianu was born in Pitesti on June 2, 1821 and died in flower village in Arges County on May 16, 1891. He was a Roman politician, brother of Dumitru C. Bratianu. He attended primary school in Pitesti having as teacher Nicholas Simonida. He joined the Wallachian army in 1838 and visited Paris to study. Returned to Wallachia and took part, along with his friend, CA Rosetti and other prominent politicians, the Romanian uprising of 1848, the prefect of police in the provisional government of that year.

After restoring Russian and Ottoman, shortly afterward, moved into exile, fleeing to Paris, the French wanted to influence public opinion in favor of the proposed union and autonomy Danubian principalities.

He was initiated into Freemasonry as a brother, Dumitru Bratianu in 1846 in Paris Athenaeum Lodge stranger, then Rose Lodge affiliates perfect silence that is granted on 14 July 1847, Master degree. In 1848 he affiliated Brotherhood Lodge Bucharest, then return to Paris, where he will be arrested after a few years to participate in the attack against Napoleon III. Returns to Bucharest and founded in 1857, together with other brothers and they return from exile, Lodge Star of Danube. [1]

During the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866), Bratianu was a prominent liberal leader. He attended the deposition of Cuza in1866 and the choice of Prince Carol of Romania, whose reign had several ministerial appointments over the next four years. He was arrested for complicity in the revolution of 1870, but released shortly.

In 1876, aided by Constantin A. Rosetti, formed a Liberal cabinet, which remained in power until 1888, the Minister during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, the Congress of Berlin, forming the Roman Kingdom, the revision of the constitution and other reforms .

After 1883, Bratianu was the only leader of the Liberals, with the help of CA Rosetti friend and political ally of and for nearly forty years.

Apart from being a Romanian politician during the critical years 1876-1888, was a writer IC Bratianu. His political pamphlets in French: Memoire sur l'empire d'Autriche dance in question d'Orient (1855), Reflexions sur la situation (1856), Memoire sur la situation from Le Trait depuis Moldavie of Paris (1857) and The Question religieuse en Roumanie (1866) were well received in Paris.

He had eight children with Bratianu Market: flowers, missing only three years, Sabina (1863-1941, married to Dr. Constantin Cantacuzino), John (1864-1927, five times Prime Minister's largest and politician Romanian state), Constantin (1867-1950, civil engineer and agronomist, the last president of PNL), Vintila (1867-1930, Prime Minister, Mayor of the Capital modernizer, Mary (1868-1945, poet Ion Pillat mother), Tatiana (1870-1940) and Pia (1872-1946, married Alimanesteanu).

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