Jean Alexandre Vaillant [SEP] native language
Jean Alexandre Vaillant
Jean Alexandre Vaillant (1804 - 21 March 1886) was a French and Romanian teacher, political activist, historian, linguist and translator, who was noted for his activities in Wallachia and his support for the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. A Romantic nationalist and Freemason, he was an associate of the liberal faction in both Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as a collaborator of Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Ion Câmpineanu, Mitică Filipescu, and Mihail Kogălniceanu.
A tutor and later teacher at the Saint Sava School in Bucharest
as a historical overview and translations of poems (notably, Vasile Cârlova's "Ruinurile Târgoviştii" and Heliade Rădulescu's "Visul"). In the preface to this work, Vaillant stressed the Latin origin of the Romanian language (in relation to other Romance languages), and, elaborating, argued that "Wallachian is nothing less than a dialect of the "Roumannesque" language, a name which in itself serves to indicate its descent".
Career Conspiracies and return to Paris.
By the late 1830s, Jean Alexandre