About FRENCH LOVE AFFAIR (Franco-Romanian Complicities)
Romania gave France Anna de Noailles, Marthe Bibesco, Elvire Popesco, Alice Cocea, Eugen Ionesco, Virgil Gheorghiu, Emil Cioran, Yonnel, Negresco, Mircea Eliade, Constantin Brancusi, Panait Istrati, and many more artist painters, sculptors, playrights, Academics, philosophers, novelists, poets.
France inspired Romanians who came to study in Paris since the beginning of the 19th century to the Second World War, a period during which both Imperial and Republican France suported Romania's aspirations for Political Independence and Democracy.
The love-affair between the two countries, based on a common Latin culture, a certain restless imagination and flamboyance was a reciprocal relationship, each culture making a contribution to the other.
Bucharest was known as "Le Petit Paris", perhaps a slight exageration which in the diabolical hands of communist dictatorship, after WWII got a serious pounding through a pre-programmed and systematic rasing of the architectural and spiritual past.
Still in Bucharest as in scores of provincial cities there are some charming examples of french-inspired architecture of the Deuxieme Empire.
This group is meant to illustrate in a graphic form both sides of this unusual love-affair in all its multi-faceted forms of expression.
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