Born in Bucharest as the son of Anton Bogliako, a Greek-Italian physician, and his wife Zinca Pereţ, who remarried the stolnic Petrache Pereţ; his adoptive father took care of Cezar's education. After being taught reading and writingat home, Bolliac studied at the Saint Sava Academy, under Ion Heliade Rădulescu - Rădulescu was to become one of his most important collaborators. In 1830, he joined the newly refounded Wallachian Army as a member of its officer corps. Three years later, Bolliac became a member of the secretPhilharmonic Society, created by Ion Câmpineanu, Rădulescu, and Constantin Aristia. In 1835, he published his first lyrical works. A year later, he began editing the review Curiosul.
With fellow radicals Nicolae Bălcescu and Eftimie Murgu, Bolliac joined in Mitică Filipescu's conspiracy against PrinceAlexandru II Ghica and, later in the year, entered the Freemasonry-inspired Frăţiasecret society. In 1844, through the means of Foaie pentru minte, inimă şi literatură, he appealed to young writers: In an article he published in 1846 in the pages of the same magazine, Bolliac showed his admiration for the works and attitudes of Victor Hugo, which he recommended as a guide to Wallachian writers.
Revolution and later life
Consequently, he was one of the leaders of the 1848 Wallachian revolution, and took exile after the Ottoman-Russian intervention in September. In Braşov, Transylvania, Bolliac began publishing Espatriatul, a paper which featured the subtitle Dreptate, Frăţie, a rendition of the revolutionary slogan. After 1857, he settled in Paris, and published the French-language poem Domnul Tudor. Episode de larévolution roumaine de 1821, and began issuing his review Buciumul, a mainly political magazine. He returned to Wallachia in 1858, after the Crimean War had led to a drastic decrease in Russian influence, and took an archaeological study trip. He included the results of his investigations in Buciumul and its successor Trompeta Carpaţilor. During the period, Bolliac also engaged in activism in favor of Wallachia's union with Moldavia, a goal reached under Alexandru Ioan Cuza. He later became a notorious antisemite, rejected the idea of naturalization for the Jews, and engaged in a polemic over this issue with Junimea's Titu Maiorescu. He died in Bucharest, by then the capital of the Kingdom of Romania.
