Grigore Alexandrescu in Bucharest was a nineteenth-century Romanian poet and translator noted for his fables with political undertones.
Career
Of a noble family, he participated in secret revolutionary societies. He founded a periodical, Albina Româneascǎ. Alexandrescu wrote Poezii (1832, 1838, 1839) and Meditaţii (1863), many of which were fables and satires influenced by French literature.
Politics
In his fables his political and social views were often reflected satirically and ironically often on the uneasiness of living under the Russian protectorate.