Introduction : the Danubian principalities and their political aspirations : union and a foreign prince
Europe assumes a protectorate : the Congress and Treaty of Paris
Discord among the protecting powers
The reaction against the Treaty
The Crisis of 1857
Compromise : the Pact of Osborne
The liquidation of the compromise : the convention of August 19, 1858
The nationalist rejoinder
The capitulation of the powers
The experiment of a native prince
The eve of union
The united principalities
Problems of reorganization : the affair of the dedicated monasteries
The arms crisis of 1862 : the plight of the protecting powers
"The little coup d'état"
A benevolent dictatorship
Into the abyss
A foreign prince
"Roumania" is made.