Resumen de Funeraliile politice si doliul românilor în timpul domniei lui Carol I
For the second half of the 19th century, the funerals have been an influent and widely used component of the political life. Is when dead bodies have a high �quality� and became, thanks to funeral and memorial speeches, some accumulation ways of a symbolic capital. Political funerals were accompanied most of the times by the anouncement of the mourning, for a shorter or a longer time period. This was the way the living people would honour the deads. During the mourning time, the close relatives of the dead person didn't take part at the celebrating displays. After this time, the mourning was a personal matter. When a important political man or a member of the royal house died, prince Charles I ordered the mourning and the duration of it. During the time of Charles I, the mourning of the Court had two types: the ordinary mourning and the great mourning. The romanian society from the second half of 19th century has confronted with the loss of big political men, like I.
Heliade-Radulescu, C. A. Rosetti, I. C. Bratianu or the former ruler Al. I. Cuza. Besides these people, a less pleasent moment for the royal family happened in 1874, when their only child, Maria, died at an early age. If in their case the implication of romanian was a direct one, the crowd taking part at the funerals, it cannot be said the same about the attitude when a foreign personality was buried, like Napoleon III. Practically, these three types of political funerals (of a member of royal house, of a foreign personality, of a Romanian political man) fit, from our point of view, those two types of mourning from the time of Carol I.
