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 (on Austrian domain), Bolliac began publishing "Espatriatul", a paper which featured the subtitle "Dreptate, Frăţie" ("Justice, Brotherhood"), a rendition of the revolutionary slogan. After 1857, he settled in Paris, and published the French-language poem "Domnul Tudor. Episode de la révolution roumaine de 1821" ("Voivode Tudor. An Episode of the 1821 Romanian Revolution"), and began issuing his review "Buciumul", a mainly political magazine.