pt. 1. Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848
Jules Michelet, "Madame Rosetti," 1855
1837-1841 : early diplomatic ventures
1844-1848 : the College de France : sociability and protest
Jules Michelet and "les Franco-Roumains" : Dumitru Bratianu
1848 in Paris and Europe
1848-1849 : Bucharest between St. Petersburg and Constantinople
A Transylvanian interlude
1848 : epilogue
pt. 2. Exile, 1849-1855
1849, Paris : early Days in exile
1849 : Dumitru Bratianu 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 Bratianu 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
pt. 3. The return of the exiles, 1856-1857
A republican funeral
The ad-hoc assemblies and the European commissioners
July 1856
October : the Brighton meeting
1857
The elections
1858 : the Congress of Paris and the union of the principalities
Epilogue: After exile
The uses of the press
The "people question"
The uses of exile
Liberalism in Romania
Conclusions
Dramatis personae.

pt. 1. Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848
pt. 2. Exile, 1849-1855
pt. 3. The return of the exiles, 1856-1857.