 In spring 1848, he was in Iaşi, where he witnessed the failed rebellion provoked by the Romantic nationalist and liberal current with which he would later affiliate.He debuted in journalism upon the end of the 1840s, when he wrote pieces condemning Transylvanian-born educators for promoting a version of Romanian which overemphasized the language's connection with Latin.During most of the 1850s, the young Vasile Alexandrescu was in France, spending most of his time in Paris, where he received his "Baccalauréat" (1856), and trained for a "Licence ès Lettres" degree.