 Elsewhere, the same critic stated his amusement at reading in "Adunarea Naţională" that the 1859 union had spurred on the Risorgimento and German unification, and that the 1784 Transylvanian rebellion had made possible the French Revolution.An unsigned article published the conservative newspaper "Timpul" in 1877, believed by literary historian Z. Ornea to be the work of Maiorescu, accuses V. A. Urechia, Xenofon Gheorghiu, Nicolae Ionescu, Ştefan Şendrea, Andrei Vizanti and others of being inactive academics and corrupt public figures.Such criticism was being repeated in later years