Zoe Farfara (1792-1879)

Zoe Farfara (b. December 30 1792, Craiova - d. 1879 , Bucharest). Advocacy revolutionary. Biography

She was the daughter of Alexander Farfara and Dumitrana Pârşcoveanu. Education that she received allowed her to excel in writing texts in French or in translation of ancient Greek. In 1805 he married Golescu. The couple had four sons, Stephen, Nicholas, Roger, Alexander and a daughter, Ana. After marriage, was a salon close to Bucharest, on this track invoice been received by his revolutionary writings published in the West. Mutations occurring in the political and social life of the Romanian space in 1848 on Zoe Golescu leads to liberal and modernizing prove this assertion supporting and sons in the revolutionary ideals. After defeating the outbreak of the Romanian country, revolutionaries were forced to exile, so the two of them came to Semlin and others were taken to Brussa. Their letters, written in French, show, in addition to real epistolary talent, sound knowledge of history or civics. Zoe herself known hostility Golescu exile, first in Sibiu, then in the Ottoman Empire, where he tried to persuade the Ottoman authorities to release the children. At the end of 1849 will return to Bucharest with the consent of Omer Pasha. Deeply disappointed by the absence of a Russo-Turkish conflict, hoping the Great Powers interventionism and international public awareness to the cause of the Principalities, Zoe Golescu Russian representative was forced to leave the capital and remain at the estate empty. This was concerned with the cultivation of ideas about modernization and renewal, using mostly reopening "loose public school" founded by his father, Radu Golescu money. Zoe fought for the emancipation Golescu social and intellectual development of the Romanian population, indifferent to the price paid for it. Bibliography

George Mark (eds.), Dictionary of female personalities from Romania, Ed Meron, Bucharest, 2009