Dynamiques sociale et culturelle dans les provinces roumaines au XIXe siècle

Abstract

Nineteenth-century Romanian culture was noted in particular for its successful experiments (for the most part) in imitating European cultures considered the standard of value. The taking of examples of good political orientation, exemplary conduct and modern writing had the role of forming the masses and shaping them according to the social canons of the time. The dynamic of openness to the foreign space, particularly the French one, appreciated as the cradle of civilization, marked the entry of Romanian society into a new stage, that of the spiritual option. Writers chose models of imitation in order to "escape" from the cultural "inertia" complex. As a result, we propose an analysis of the social and cultural dynamics manifested in the Romanian provinces of that time.