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		<description><![CDATA[Romanian-Jewish Topics (Part One of Two): Quotations from an Alternative Anthology: “Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women” Presented and edited by Constantin Roman, Preface by Catherine Durandin, published by the Centre for Romanian Studies (London), 2009 1,100 pages, 160 biographies, 600 quotations, 4,000 references, credits, discography and URLs , 6 Indexes http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_461" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 234px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rosenthal12.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-461" title="rosenthal12" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rosenthal12-224x300.jpg" alt="Daniel Rosenthal - 'Revolutionary Romania' (19th c)" width="224" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Daniel Rosenthal - &#39;Revolutionary Romania&#39; (19th c)</p></div>
<p>Romanian-Jewish Topics (Part One of Two):<br />
Quotations from an Alternative Anthology:<br />
“<strong>Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”</strong></p>
<p>Presented and edited by <strong>Constantin Roman, Preface by Catherine Durandin,</strong> published by the Centre for Romanian Studies (London), 2009</p>
<p><strong>1,100 pages, 160 biographies, 600 quotations, 4,000 references, credits, discography and URLs , 6 Indexes</strong></p>
<p>http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html</p>
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<div id="attachment_472" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 247px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lauren-bacall.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-472" title="lauren-bacall" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lauren-bacall-237x300.jpg" alt="Lauren Bacall, Movie Star (Lauren's mother was born in Romania and migrated to New York with her parents." width="237" height="300" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Lauren Bacall, Movie Star (Lauren&#39;s mother was born in Romania and migrated to New York with her parents.</p></div>
<p><strong>Lauren BACALL,</strong></p>
<p>“Betty” (née Betty Joan Perske), Miss Betty Bacall, Mrs. Humphrey Bogart, (b. New York, 16 September 1924)<br />
First-generation Romanian-American, film star, wife of Humphrey Bogart</p>
<p><strong>Romanian immigrants:</strong></p>
<p><em>Mother left Romania by ship – aged somewhere between one and two – with her father, mother, elder sister, baby brother. Her father had been in the wheat business, had been wiped out, and had turned out whatever silver and jewellery there was left to a sister for money, enough to transport his family to the promised land – the New World – America. They arrived in Ellis Island and gave their name – Weinstein Bacal (meaning wineglass in German and Russian). The man must have written down just the first half of the name – too many people from too many countries, too many foreign names  &#8211; so it was Max and Sophie Weinstein, daughters Renée and Natalie’s, son Albert.</em><br />
(Lauren Bacall <em>By Myself,</em> pp. 5, Jonathan Cape, London, 1979)<br />
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<p><strong>Happy Times:</strong><br />
<em>We had happy times, my grandmother cooking, singing German songs, reading constantly in French, German, Romanian, Russian and English. She and mother spoke Romanian and German when she did not want me to understand.</em><br />
(Lauren Bacall, <em>By Myself,</em> op.cit. 5)</p>
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<p><strong>Georgeta (Georgette) CANCICOV</strong>, née Maria Jurgea<br />
“The Angel Saviour of Moldavian Jews”<br />
(b. 29 May 1899, Godinesti, County Bacàu – d. Bucharest, 16 April 1984),<br />
Novelist, essayist, violinist, nurse in WWI, wife of Liberal justice minister and politician Mircea Cancicov</p>
<p><strong>Georgeta Cancicov &#8211; Saviour of Moldavian Jews:</strong><br />
<em>Taking advantage of the fact that Marshall Antonescu stayed at her house whenever he visited Bacàu and given the good relationship she had with him, Mrs. Cancicov interceded robustly and ensured that no ghettos be set up in Moldavia.<br />
(…)<br />
Then, there was the question raised that  Jewish women be  forced to perform labour in town. We again interceded with Mrs. Cancicov in a petition addressed to Marshall Antonescu, who decreed that the women should only do such work as befitting their profession, which was a gain in our favour.<br />
(…)<br />
On the eve of 22nd August 1944, there was an order to evacuate all Jews. (Consequently), on the morning of 23rd August, in the courtyard of the Church of Our Lady,  a detachment of 600 Jews was gathered for evacuation. You can imagine their distress, as they had to leave behind their families and be driven among (the retreating) Hitler’s armies. As I intervened with Mrs. Cancicov, she communicated  to me in writing that no Jews should be evacuated and I presented this order to the (military) commander. He checked with Mrs Cancicov, who confirmed, on her authority, that nobody should go, so he freed everybody. As a result no Jews from the any other detachments were evacuated either.<br />
(…)<br />
Of course, there were countless other little matters on which Mrs. Cancicov acted as the protecting angel and saviour of our wretched and oppressed Jewish people.</em><br />
(D. Ionas, President of the Jewish community of Bacàu, Petition to the Prefect of the County Bacàu, dated 9th September 1945, in favour of Georgeta Cancicov, whose house was requisitioned by the Soviet Army, quoted by the Memoria)<br />
(http://www.memoria.ro/?location=view_article&amp;id=821&amp;l=ro)</p>
<p><strong>Jewish Ghettos:</strong><br />
<em>There will be no Jewish ghettos set up here: (I defy you, that) should there ever be any of these set up, then I am going to be an inmate in one of them myself.</em><br />
(Georgeta Cancicov, reassurance given to Schiller, the representative of the Jewish Community in Bacàu, quoted by D. Ionas, op.cit)</p>
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<div id="attachment_469" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 165px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ninacassian1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-469" title="ninacassian1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ninacassian1.jpg" alt="Nina Cassian, Poet" width="155" height="147" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Nina Cassian, - a successful Poet under dictatorship, who sought refuge in America at the end of Communism</p></div>
<p><strong>Nina CASSIAN</strong> (Renée Annie Cassian)<br />
(b. 27 November 1924, Galati),<br />
Poet, novelist, translator, composer, exile and now expatriate living in New York since 1985</p>
<p><strong>Conviction:</strong><br />
<em>I worked to be understood by the farmers and workers, I was torturing myself and distorting my artistry. Some of us Romanian writers did it with conviction. That was the worst.</em><br />
(Nina Cassian)</p>
<p><strong>Excluded:</strong><br />
<em>They don&#8217;t want me there, I&#8217;m not sure why. They used to consider me eccentric and rebellious&#8230;But now maybe it&#8217;s because they resent that I&#8217;m living a better life in America.</em><br />
(Nina Cassian)</p>
<p><strong>Uprooting:</strong><br />
<em>It is a terrible tragedy, at age 60, to leave one’s country and live in a place where one is surrounded by a foreign language and with two impossible professions &#8212; poetry and classical music, I have had my share of fame and glory, and didn&#8217;t expect more.</em><br />
(Nina Cassian)</p>
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<div id="attachment_477" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 129px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/maria_forescu.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-477" title="maria_forescu" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/maria_forescu.png" alt="Maria Forescu, Romanian Movie star of the silent cinema: died at Buchenwald" width="119" height="166" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Maria Forescu, Romanian Movie star of the silent cinema: died at Buchenwald</p></div>
<p><strong>Maria FORESCU</strong> (née Maria Füllenbaum)<br />
(15 Jan 1875 Cernàuti, Bukowina –  (?) 23 November 1943, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Thuringia, Germany)<br />
Movie star, operetta singer, Nazi concentration camp detainee, killed at Buchenwald</p>
<p><em>Maria Forescu (née Maria Füllenbaum) is one of Europe’s earliest stars of the silent movie. She dedicated herself to her career with great zest,  acting  in over one hundred and sixty films from 1911 to 1933, a thread which was abruptly severed by  Nazi censorship which resulted in her  dramatic deportation to  the infamous Buchenwald cocentration camp where she was killed ten years later, in 1943.</em><br />
(Extract from the Biography of Maria Forescu published in “Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”, 2009)</p>
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<p><strong> Nicoleta (Nicolette) Franck</strong> (née Apotheker/Apoteker)<br />
(b. 21st July 1920, Iasi, România)<br />
Lawyer, political analyst, journalist, translator, exile in Switzerland</p>
<p><strong>Political illiteracy:</strong><br />
<em>The tragedy of the vote  (for presidential elections) of 26th November 2000 cannot be explained in any other way than in the perspective of the political illiteracy of the Romanian people. Our schools had not yet made good the teaching of history, and so distorted has it remained that our past is not correctly understood and thus we cannot shape the present or  have a glimmer in the future.</em><br />
(Nicoleta Franck)</p>
<p><strong>Rumours:</strong><br />
<em>Certainly after half a century of outright lies peddled by the communist régime, Romanians now believe only in rumours rather than public declarations. Consequently they are easily misled through whispered rumours, which are aimed at the calumny of honest people, pointing out their failures rather than at their achievements, &#8211; the latter, alas, being few and far between and rather slow in materializing.</em><br />
(Nicoleta Franck)</p>
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<div id="attachment_473" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 240px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/clara-haskil.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-473" title="clara-haskil" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/clara-haskil.jpg" alt="Clara Haskil, Romanian born pianist: her talent was discovered by Carmen Sylva, Queen Elisabeth of Romania who gave her a scholarship to study in Vienna." width="230" height="290" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Clara Haskil, Romanian born pianist: her talent was discovered by Carmen Sylva, Queen Elisabeth of Romania who gave her a scholarship to study in Vienna.</p></div>
<p><strong>Clara HASKIL,</strong><br />
‘La Princèsse de la Musique’,<br />
‘Clarinette’, (nickname given by Dinu Lipatti)<br />
(b. 7 January, 1895, Bucharest– d. 7 December 1960, Brussels),<br />
Pianist, exile in France and Switzerland</p>
<p><strong>Clara Haskil about Georges Enesco:</strong><br />
<em>I always felt alone when I played with Enesco. I could not see what we had in common. This great man and little me. Yet we were both Romanian, and apparently our playing blended perfectly. But what else? Such a towering figure. And me?</em><br />
(Clara Haskil, ibid.)</p>
<p><strong>Clara Haskil about Dinu Lipatti:</strong><br />
<em>Oh, I could spend hours talking about Dinu. He was always so aware, so alive, in spite of all the terrible pain he had to suffer. And his music-making! I really can’t find the words to describe what I felt whenever I hear him play. I often thought he felt almost guilty he had been blessed with so much genius.”</em><br />
(Clara Haskil, ibid.)</p>
<p><strong>Clara Haskil about Dinu Lipatti:</strong><br />
<em>How much I envy your talent, may the Deuce take it! Must you have so much talent and I so little? Is there justice in this world?</em><br />
(Jean-Yves Conrad, <em>Roumanie, capitale Paris, Guide des promenades insolites, sur les traces des Roumains célèbres de Paris, </em>page 130)</p>
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<div id="attachment_474" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 249px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/helen-78919-6b-detail22-11-1934.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-474" title="helen-78919-6b-detail22-11-1934" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/helen-78919-6b-detail22-11-1934-239x300.jpg" alt="Helen, Queen Mother of Romania and Mother of King Michael: during WWII she fought fearlessly to save Jewish lives: her tribute is alive at Yad Vashem" width="239" height="300" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Helen, Queen Mother of Romania and Mother of King Michael: during WWII she fought fearlessly to save Jewish lives: her tribute is alive at Yad Vashem</p></div>
<p><strong>Princess HELEN of Greece and Denmark,</strong><br />
<strong>Romania’s ‘Queen Mother’</strong> (Regina Mamà Elena)<br />
(b. 2 May 1896, Athens &#8211; d. 28 November 1982, Lausanne, Switzerland)<br />
consort of  King Carol II,</p>
<p><strong>Helen, Queen Mother of Romania, seen by Great Rabbi Alexandru Safran:</strong><br />
<em>I would like to refer to the posthumous award of the title of “The Righteous Among the   Nations” to Helen, Queen Mother of Romania. This letter is meant to bring to the fore two fundamental aspects pertaining to this matter: (1) actions by which the Queen Mother saved the lives of many Jews during the Second World War; (2) the risks personally taken by the Queen Mother in undertaking such actions.” (…)<br />
“Such consciousness of possible risks extended over the whole period between 1941 and 1944. My own contact with the Queen Mother allowed me to gage her sharp and lucid perception of the realities of these unstable and turbulent times and at the same time to be appraised of her apprehensions concerning such risks. I can, at the same time bear witness that the Queen Mother constantly interceded on behalf of the Jews and that she saved Jewish lives in spite of all apprehensions: she was drawn to it by her kindness and her moral values.<br />
Hoping that this letter will be helpful to the Commission of the Righteous Among Nations Award…</em><br />
(Alexandru Safran, Grand Rabbi of Switzerland)</p>
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<div id="attachment_475" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 110px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/magdaelenalupescu5.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-475" title="magdaelenalupescu5" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/magdaelenalupescu5.jpg" alt="Lupescu - The indomitable Romanian royal seductress: she became King Carol II third wife: her remains were recently transferred from the Braganza chapel in Lisbon to a monastery in the Carpathians " width="100" height="171" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Lupescu - The indomitable Romanian royal seductress: she became King Carol II third wife: her remains were recently transferred from the Braganza chapel in Lisbon to a monastery in the Carpathians </p></div>
<p><strong>Elena LUPESCU,</strong><br />
(née Elena Grünberg, alias ‘Wolf’),<br />
(aka ‘Magda’, aka ‘Duduia’, aka ‘Princess Elena’)<br />
Mrs. Elena Tâmpeanu &#8211; by her first married name<br />
(b. 1896, Herta, România, or 1899, Iasi Moldavia – d. 1977, Estoril, Portugal)<br />
Socialite, royal concubine, third wife of King Carol II, exile</p>
<p><strong>Limerick on Madame Lupescu:</strong><br />
<em>Have you heard of Madam Lupescu,<br />
Who came to Romania’s rescue?<br />
It’s a wonderful thing<br />
To be under a King:<br />
Is Democracy better I ask you?</em><br />
(Anonymous)<br />
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<p><strong>Bleeding:</strong><br />
<em>While he whom I adore, he in whom I put all my hope for the good of my country did not send me a telegram, not even a single line in order to share with me his happiness, happiness to which I had contributed… my heart is sad, it is bleeding because I expected to be the first to whom you would send a telegram.</em><br />
(Elena Lupescu’s letter to Carol, Quoted by Lilly Marcou,<em> Le Roi trahi – Carol II de Roumanie</em>)</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">ROMANIAN-JEWISH TOPICS: (PART TWO OF TWO)</span><br />
(continued from Part ONE)<br />
Quotations from an Alternative Anthology:<br />
“<strong>Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”</strong></p>
<p><strong>Presented and edited by Constantin Roman, Preface by Catherine Durandin,</strong> published by the Centre for Romanian Studies (London), 2009</p>
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<div id="attachment_495" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ana_novac1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-495" title="ana_novac1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ana_novac1.jpg" alt="As a young girl from Hungarian-occupied Transylvania, Ana NOVAC knew the whole gamut of Nazi concentration camps. She was a surviver of both Nazi and Communist dictatorship who opted for freedom in France." width="150" height="244" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">As a young girl from Hungarian-occupied Transylvania, Ana NOVAC knew the whole gamut of Nazi concentration camps. She was a surviver of both Nazi and Communist dictatorships, who opted for freedom in France.</p></div>
<p><strong>Ana NOVAC, (née Zimra Harsany)</strong><br />
‘The Romanian Anne Frank’<br />
(b. Dej, Transylvania, 21 June 1929)<br />
Actress, playwright, poet, novelist Auschwitz, Kratzau, Plaszow  camps survivor, exile living in Paris<br />
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<p><strong>Nationality:</strong><br />
<em>I was born in 1929 in Transylvania (România). One good morning when I was 11 years old I woke up to be a Hungarian citizen without having moved to another place, another street, or even without having changed my shirt. At the age of 14 I was deported to Auschwitz as a Jew. On my release in 1945 I had again become a Romanian citizen. That is why I have the greatest difficulty in establishing my nationality, other than from my identity papers which specified that I was Jewish.</em><br />
(Ana Novac, <em>The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow</em>)</p>
<p><strong>‘Anti-semite’:</strong><br />
<em>That text was rejected by the censors as ‘anti-Semitic’….’It is useless to explain to a bureaucrat trembling for his job and his life that one can be Jewish, persecuted, and a bastard at the same time; that martyrdom and heroism do not necessarily go together; that misfortune does not imply any merit and does not confer any more right to glory than a car wreck, or an earthquake.</em><br />
(Ana Novac, <em>The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow</em>)</p>
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<p><strong>Ana PAUKER (née Hannah Rabinsohn, or Rabinovici)</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_497" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 119px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pauker_time_magazine1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-497" title="pauker_time_magazine1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pauker_time_magazine1.jpg" alt="Ana pauker together wit Elena ceausescu shares the distinction of belonging to the Romanian Communist Demonology" width="109" height="121" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ana Pauker together with Elena Ceausescu shares the distinction of belonging to the Romanian Communist Demonology</p></div>
<p>‘A Jewish Female Bukharin’<br />
(b. 1893, Codàesti, County Vaslui, Moldavia – d. Bucharest, 1960)<br />
Granddaughter of Rabbi Hersch Kaufmann Rabinsohn, communist activist prior to WWI, political prisoner, exile in the Soviet Union, NKVD operative/ spy, returnee,<br />
vice-president of the Council of Ministers, (1949-52), Foreign Minister, (1947-53),<br />
Politburo Member responsible for the enforced collectivization of agriculture, (1944-56),</p>
<p><strong>Rabbi Alexandru Safran on Ana Pauker:</strong><br />
<em>“Ana Pauker, a rabbi’s daughter…. when she was Minister of Foreign Afairs, wanted everybody to know, especially when I was present, that she was not a Jew, she was a communist”….<br />
“… when she saw me approaching the Prime Minister and the other ministers she stepped out of the line and turned aside for a moment in order not to greet me. She thus thought to demonstrate that she, the communist, did not want anything to do with the Chief Rabbi and Jewry; that she had less in common with him than even the other members of government….”<br />
“…the expression of Ana Pauker’s face during her time of glory, had always been impertinent”.</em><br />
(Alexander Safran, Grand Rabbi of Switzerland, formerly Grand Rabbi of Romania: <em>Resisting the storm, Romania 1940-1947</em>, op.cit 139, 161, 166)</p>
<p><strong>Tesu Solomovici on Ana Pauker:</strong><br />
<em>The most shining star amongst the huge number of Moscow-trained spies and activists was, undoubtedly the Jewish communist Ana Pauker. She knew Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin personally and worked under the orders and direct command of the henchmen of the Soviet repressive services, Lavrentie Pavlovitch Beria, Victor Semionovitch Abakhumov, Piotr Vassilievitch Fedotov and Pavel Mihailovitch Fitin and furthermore she enjoyed the admiration of yet another dinosaur of Soviet power – Vyactheslav Molotov. Notwithstanding all that, Gheorghiu-Dej succeeded, with a patient cunning to pluck out all her feathers.</em><br />
(Solomovitch: 54-55)</p>
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<div id="attachment_493" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 123px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/roudinesco_9.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-493" title="roudinesco_9" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/roudinesco_9.jpg" alt="Elisabeth Roudinesco Parisian-born Psychoanalist of Romanian stock" width="113" height="111" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Elisabeth Roudinesco Parisian-born Psychoanalist of Romanian stock</p></div>
<p><strong>Elisabeth ROUDINESCO (Elisabeta RUDINESCU)</strong><br />
(b. 1944)<br />
Academic, psychoanalyst, historian of science, historian, journalist, editor,<br />
French-born Romanian living in Paris</p>
<p><strong>Antecedents:</strong><br />
<em>“Being Jewish, in such conditions, did not make sense, because I was baptised, but not being Jewish did not make sense either, because this baptism did not imbue in me any integrating principles. How should I answer my classmates who might enquire about my origins and my religion? My father called himself an orthodox convert to Catholicism; my mother rather considered herself a Protestant and both parents felt rather detached from any religious tradition. Furthermore, my mother kept in a drawer a fake birth certificate which was produced for her benefit by a willing abbot, by which she was spared the obligation of wearing the yellow star badge and consequently saved from deportation. How could one believe, in such conditions, in the validity of a ‘real’ birth certificate and how will I know what might be the implications of ‘really’ belonging to a religion?  It took me twenty years to unravel this imbroglio of my Jewish origins.</em><br />
(Elisabeth Roudinesco, <em>Généalogie)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dracula:</strong><br />
<em> “One day, as I returned from the cinema, where I discovered that the most famous Romanian on this planet was Count Dracula, I bought Bram Stoker’s book, which I read breathlessly. As soon as I reminded my father that his worthy ancestors may not have been those whose descendant he claimed to be, he raised his arms to the sky and treated me (in Romanian) of that highest swear word of being a ‘tzigan’. From then on we did not stop wrangling. He was always singing the merits of Voltaire, Anatole France and Paul Valéry, whose friend he was, while I loved Balzac, Michelet and Proust.”</em><br />
(Elisabeth Roudinesco, ibid.)</p>
<p><strong>Immigrant’s delusions:</strong><br />
<em> “My father who emigrated (from Romania to France t.n.) in 1904, passed his time obfuscating his origins. Being wary of anti-Semitism (in France. t.n.) and anxious to prove his desire of being assimilated, he was claiming an Orthodox father and that he himself had converted to Roman Catholic. This is how he could claim, without admitting it, a link with Alexandru Socec. As for any reminiscences regarding his own itinerary, he invented a family novel to suit his imagination, to the point of thinking himself more French than the French themselves and to relegating his native Romania to the status of a country inhabited by vampires and gypsies. He had in his disquisitions  two way of looking at history. A scholarly approach, based on academic books and which he presented and eschewed  in the clearest manner. By contrast his private life was punctuated by mystery and rumor. My father would assign to archives and to the truth a positivist cult, whilst for his own family history, he was covering his tracks and was clouding the genealogies.”</em><br />
(Elisabeth Roudinesco, ibid.)</p>
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<div id="attachment_488" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 116px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/anniesamuelli1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-488" title="anniesamuelli1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/anniesamuelli1.jpg" alt="Annie SAMUELLI, victim of Communist witch hunt" width="106" height="169" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Annie SAMUELLI, victim of Communist witch hunt</p></div>
<p><strong>Annie SAMUELLI</strong><br />
(b. 1912 – d. ca. 2003)<br />
Clerk at the British Legation Bucharest, political prisoner, exile</p>
<p><strong>Cosmopolitan bourgeois:</strong><br />
<em>The debased spies, recruited from among the cosmopolitan bourgeois, have finally received their retribution.</em><br />
(The Communist newspaper Unirea commenting on Annie Samuelli’s ‘conspiracy in favour of Great Britain and the U.S.A’. in the 1948 political trials. Quoted by Tesu Solomonovici, in <em>Securitatea si Evreii</em>, vol 2, pp.51l)</p>
<p><strong>Miracle Rabbi:</strong><br />
<em> Carla, aged 40, arrived at our cell: she was a brilliant accountant.  Carla was given a 20 years prison sentence for having been a member of a so-called ‘subversive organization’. Although a Roman Catholic she would tell us about the pilgrimage to the tomb of the ‘Miracle Rabbi’: </em></p>
<p><em>Some hundred years ago, this rabbi would have led his folk on foot all the way to a small Romanian village to escape a pogrom in Poland. This humble and enlightened man handed out wise counsel, which was of the greatest help to the community. After his death at a venerable age, people would still come along to his grave to ask advice. The ritual unfolded in the following way: in memory of the rabbi’s long treck from Poland, the pilgrims, Jews and Gentiles alike, would walk to the cemetery, which was rather far from the city. Along the way, they would pick up a stone. Any request or problem would be scribbled on a piece of paper, which was put under the stone and placed on the rabbi’s grave. In time, all these stones grew to become a gravestone in the shape of a pyramid, which grew and grew. Each time a request or a problem was satisfied, the pilgrim would return to collect the stone and destroy the piece of paper.</em></p>
<p><em> Carla heard the story from an inmate with whom she shared a prison cell in said town. Although she was Romanian Orthodox this woman prisoner was convinced that her husband was praying at the rabbi’s tomb for her to be given a reprieve of her prison sentence, because the rabbi had already miraculously saved their dying son.</em><br />
<em> ‘Well, would you believe it?’ Carla would exclaim. ‘This woman was acquitted within six months. And you know how rare it is for a political prisoner to be freed. She had failed to denounce some refugee and she would have been sentenced to a minimum of five years. Now, owing to the Miracle Rabbi, she could go home’.</em><br />
(Annie Samuelli,  Dayyenu)</p>
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<div id="attachment_487" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 360px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sylvia-sidney1910-1999.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-487" title="sylvia-sidney1910-1999" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sylvia-sidney1910-1999.jpg" alt="Silvia SIDNEY, First Generation romanian-American Movie Star" width="350" height="450" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Silvia SIDNEY, First Generation romanian-American Movie Star</p></div>
<p><strong>Sylvia SIDNEY (</strong>aka<strong> SYDNEY), </strong>(née Sophia Kosow),<br />
1stly Mrs. Bennett Cerf, 2ndly Mrs. Luther Adler, 3rdly Mrs. Carlton Alsop<br />
(b. Bronx, New York, 8 August 1910 – d. New York, 1st July 1999)<br />
First-generation Romanian-American, film and stage actress, needlepoint artist</p>
<p><em> As in the case of Lauren Bacall, (q.v.), another glamorous New York-born actress with Romanian roots, one may question Sylvia’s inclusion in the Blouse Roumaine. Sylvia’s father, Mr Kosow, was indeed Russian, but her mother was Romanian.</em></p>
<p><em> </em>(Extract  from:<em> &#8216;Blouse Roumaine &#8211; the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women&#8217;</em>)</p>
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<div id="attachment_485" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 274px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sandastolojan1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-485" title="sandastolojan1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sandastolojan1.jpg" alt="Sanda Stolojan: a freedom fighter and sharp observer of Romanian exiles " width="264" height="255" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Sanda Stolojan: a freedom fighter and sharp observer of Romanian exiles </p></div>
<p><strong>Sanda STOLOJAN</strong> (née Alexandra Zamfirescu)<br />
(b. 1919, Bucharest – d. 2 August 2005, Paris)<br />
Essayist, poet, memorialist, translator, journalist  human rights activist,<br />
Personal interpreter for four French presidents, exile in France</p>
<p><strong>Franco-Romanian Jews:</strong><br />
<em>I went to Beaubourg to the symposium on Benjamin Fondane, on whom I was writing an article in the ‘Cahiers de l’Est’. In the auditorium  many Romanian Jews were gathered , a world with which we other Romanians have few contacts other than some personal friends. An old émigré, Claude Émile Rosen, read one of Fondane’s poems in Romanian. Stefan Lupasco who knew Fondane was there too. Generally the tone of the evening, imprinted by the philosopher Chouraki, a specialist in the Jewish mystique, was Hebraic and anti-Romanian, with pre-war Romania  painted in anti-Semitic colours all over.  Throughout the course of the evening I felt an odd sensation of being there only tolerated, marginalized, in spite of being at the core of a cultural space with which I was very familiar. In a certain fashion I was the “Jew”, the foreigner within this audience. In fact our manner of living our exile is situated at the opposite pole of the sensitivity of these Franco-Romanian intellectuals of Jewish origin. It is all a matter of the past, a question linked to the antecedents of our lives, yesterday in communist Romania, today in Paris. Even further back, there is a matter of ancestors, ours steeped in the glebe of deepest Romania, in its beliefs and traditions, theirs errant for three thousand years; ours lost in the Neolithic mist, theirs mingled to the history of Babylon and Egypt. These are profound matters, old causes, as old as the biblical prophecies and their different interpretations which shaped us. And then there is the recent past, our situation and theirs under communism, which of late has forced us  to take the road of exile, where we see them again, these old errant hands. Today the experience of</em> <em>exile ought to bring us closer to each other, but our contact with them, like that  of last evening, only revealed to what extent we remained attached to our land archetype implanted in the Parisian milieu. What could be more foreign to their spirit than our obsessions, our reactions, our commitment. It is by rejecting this spirit of our soil that Cioran succeeded in placing himself above this state of mind which is justly ours, that of the provincials of Europe, a characteristic which was also his. Paradoxically, it is while strongly denouncing his origins that Cioran discovered his inner depth: for, as he said, ‘Nobody is in control of his own inner depth’. How could one solve this dilemma? How could our exile bring us closer to the Jewish exile?”</em><br />
(Sanda Stolojan, <em>Au balcon de l’exil Roumain a Paris</em>)</p>
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<div id="attachment_483" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 172px"><strong><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sabina-wurmbrand-05.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-483" title="sabina-wurmbrand-05" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sabina-wurmbrand-05.jpg" alt="Sabina Wurmbrand - a Pastor's Wife who knew the Communist Prisons" width="162" height="150" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Sabina Wurmbrand - a Pastor&#39;s Wife who knew the Communist Prisons</p></div>
<p><strong>Sabina WURMBRAND</strong> (née Sabina Oster)<br />
(1913, România –2000, California, U.S.A.)<br />
Missionary of the underground church, pastor’s wife, political prisoner and prisoner of conscience, exile in the USA</p>
<p><strong>Prison Carcer:</strong><br />
<em>..I was marched to the guardroom and put into a prison cell. It was a narrow cupboard built into the wall in which you could just stand. The iron door had a few holes to admit air&#8230; After a few hours, my feet were burning. The blood in my temples beat with slow, painful thuds. How many hours could they keep me here?&#8230; Drops of water were falling from somewhere on the roof of the box. It was a desolate sound. I counted them to make time pass&#8230; I don’t know how long I did this, but at a certain moment.<br />
I simply began to cry aloud to avoid despair:<br />
’One, two, three, four,’<br />
I cried, and again:</em><br />
<em>‘One, two, three, four&#8230;’<br />
After a time the words became inarticulate. I didn’t know what I said. My mind had moved into rest. It blacked out. Yet my spirit continued to say something to God.</em><br />
(Sabina Wurmbrand, <em>The pastor&#8217;s wife</em>)</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong><em>&#8216;La Blouse roumaine&#8217;</em> de Matisse</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_399" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 234px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/palladymatisse1.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-399" title="palladymatisse1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/palladymatisse1.gif" alt="Matisse et le Roumain Pallady (Nice, 1940)" width="224" height="291" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Matisse et le Roumain Pallady (Nice, 1940)</p></div>
<p>En peignant <em>La blouse roumaine</em>, Henri Matisse donna à cette dernière une pérennité artistique et une reconnaissance internationale. En fait, la toile qui est aujourd’hui au Musée d’art moderne de Paris, était devenue le symbole de la roumanité et plus particulièrement de la féminité roumaine.</p>
<p>Mais POURQUOI une blouse roumaine ? Le choix de l’artiste était-il fortuit ? On peut se poser la question, car le peintre était plus connu pour ses modèles vêtus d’atours marocains ou parisiens, plutôt qu’en robe ethnique roumaine, ou mieux encore, pour ses modèles pas vêtus du tout… Alors, pourquoi une blouse roumaine ????</p>
<p>Bien que cela soit moins connu, il est vrai que le grand maître eut au moins une élève roumaine – la fascinante et patriotique artiste moldave Nina Arbore (voir plus loin). Plus tard, Nina Arbore laissa son empreinte sur la scène roumaine dans le mouvement d’avant-garde tout comme peintre de fresques monumentales, qui décorent l’intérieur de cathédrales modernes. Il est plus que probable que Nina Arbore ait porté, à plusieurs occasions, la chemise paysanne roumaine. Aurait-elle été la première <em>‘seductrice’</em>, inspirant au Maître le désir de peindre un tel sujet, ou aurait-elle posé pour lui ? En tout cas, il y a des archives qui laissent à penser qu’un portrait de Nina Arbore par Matisse existerait dans la collection Shtchukin . Cela coïnciderait avec la période durant laquelle Nina était l’élève de Matisse, en 1910-1911. Le fait que le collectionneur russe Shtchukin ait pu vouloir acquérir le portrait d’une élève roumaine de Matisse peut être dû au lien très fort que la famille Arbore, de Bessarabie, avait avec les intellectuels russes en général et avec Pouchkine en particulier (voir Nina Arbore). Il est aussi vrai qu’avant la Première guerre mondiale, la Bessarabie, auparavant une province de Moldavie, faisait partie de l’empire russe (voir aussi Maria Cebotari).<br />
Si l’on observe certaines premières toiles de Matisse, on peut y décerner l’idée d’une broderie ethnique, dans la blouse de la danseuse de 1939, <em>Une danseuse au repos,</em> où l’on voit une femme assise qui porte une blouse roumaine.</p>
<p>La même chose est vraie d’une autre toile de Matisse, <em>Nature morte avec femme endormie</em>, aujourd’hui dans la collection de la National Gallery of Art à Wasington DC. La personne assise est une femme qui porte une blouse brodée à longues manches, décorée dans la partie supérieure de la manche comme le sont les blouses roumaines.</p>
<p>Une version encore antérieure, où les verts prédominent, apparaît en 1937.</p>
<p>Mais comme pour toutes ses peintures, les idées de Matisse furent dans un premier temps essayées sur du papier et là encore, on peut trouver des exemples de blouses roumaines au crayon et à l’encre : l’un de ces dessins, Femme avec une blouse rêvant, est visible à la page 67 de la  monographie de Volkmar Esser (Matisse – 1869-1954, Master of Colour, Taschen, Koln, 2002) et est daté de 1936. Là, les mailles fleuries abondent. C’était l’année où le Maître avait eu une commande pour le décor et les costumes d’un ballet russe.</p>
<div id="attachment_402" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 234px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rosenthal11.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-402" title="rosenthal11" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rosenthal11-224x300.jpg" alt="Romanian Blouse (Danile Rosenthal, 19th c)" width="224" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"> Blouse Roumaine (Daniel Rosenthal, 19e s.). Matisse a eu toute une collection de blouses pareilles, offertes par son ami Roumain, Theodor Pallady</p></div>
<p>Donc, de ces exemples et d’autres, dont de nombreux couvraient un mur entier à la galerie Maeght lors de l’exposition rétrospective de Matisse, en 1945, on peut penser sans équivoque que l’idée n’était pas neuve dans l’esprit de l’artiste. Quoi qu’il en soit, ce qui était nouveau à cette occasion, en 1940, était que la <em>BLOUSE ROUMAINE</em> était devenue au centre du sujet, le portant au premier plan et lui donnant une identité spécifique, nommée. Le modèle dans la version de 1940 est moins contemplatif comparé aux versions précédentes et regarde droit dans les yeux, avec une grande intensité et détermination. La toile a dû faire l’objet d’une discussion, voire même l’idée a pu en être soufflée lors de la visite d’un vieil ami, le peintre roumain Theodor Pallady (1871 – 1956), dont le portrait a été dessiné par Matisse, à Nice en 1940 . Selon la critique d’art Ioana Vlasiu , Pallady aurait même fait cadeau à son vieil ami Matisse d’une collection de blouses ethniques brodées. L’amitié entre Matisse et Pallady remontait à l’époque où ils étaient ensemble à l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris (1891 – 1899) et qu’ils fréquentaient le studio du peintre symboliste Gustave Moreau (1826 – 1898). Moreau était un ami de Chasseriau dont le modèle préféré n’était autre que la tante de Pallady, la princesse roumaine Maria Cantacuzino  (1820 – 1898). Maria devait épouser plus tard Puvis de Chavannes qui l’a prise comme modèle pour symboliser sainte Geneviève, dans les fresques qui décorent le Panthéon à Paris. A travers leur correspondance qui dura presque un demi-siècle, un lien étroit se tissa entre le Français Henri Matisse et le peintre roumain Theodor Pallady. Excepté leur proximité dans le style et l’attitude, les deux amis partageaient un grand nombre de points communs, parmi lesquels l’image des muses roumaines, plus en vue en France au XXeme siècle, était un sujet récurrent. Dans sa correspondance, Matisse accompagnait ses lettres de dessins et utilisait Pallady comme une oreille compatissante, parlant parfois de ses angoisses personnelles et artistiques. Au Musée national d’art abrité dans le Palais royal à Bucarest, la collection d’art contemporain possède un dessin au fusain d’une femme qui porte une blouse paysanne roumaine et une veste, signé de Matisse, dessin qui précède ses peintures à l’huile bien connues sur le même thème.</p>
<p><strong>Une blouse roumaine par Picasso ? Le triangle Pallady – Matisse &#8211; Picasso</strong></p>
<p>Un fait a été mis en avant lors de l’exposition rétrospective de 2002 à la Tate Moderne de Londres consacrée à Matisse et Picasso  : les deux peintres empruntaient souvent l’un à l’autre des thèmes, tout en les traitant dans leur idiosyncrasie. <em>La Blouse roumaine</em> aurait-elle pu être l’un d’entre eux ?<br />
Picasso ne semble pas avoir donné un tel titre à aucune des toiles qu’il a peintes. Quoi qu’il en soit la monographie d’Yves-Alain Bois révèle un travail de Picasso ostensiblement inspiré par <em>la Blouse roumaine</em> de Matisse. Il s’agit de La femme aux mains bleues (collection privée), peinte par Picasso en février 1947, soit seulement quatorze mois après la rétrospective Matisse de décembre 1945 à Maeght. Le traitement que Picasso fait de la blouse est plus abstrait que celui de Matisse, mais là aussi l’artiste a décoré la robe avec de riches dessins qui couvrent les manches courtes et les épaules de la blouse mais en y ajoutant un genre de coiffe typique, portée par les demoiselles vierges roumaines, dont les fichus étaient serrés derrière la nuque. Même l’idée d’une <em>fota </em>(tablier ou jupe folklorique roumaine) géométrique est suggérée sur la jupe que porte la femme assise. Quoi qu’il en soit, on ne doit pas se laisser entraîner trop loin par de tels parallèles. Il suffit de dire que ce thème n’était pas récurrent dans le travail de Picasso, tout comme de nombreux autres thèmes que l’artiste emprunta à Matisse. Quoi qu’il en soit, en observant plus attentivement la toile, il est évident que les zigzags et les motifs nodules qui dominent dans la robe de la femme peinte en 1947 par Picasso sont empruntés aux vingt-cinq versions de blouses roumaines de Matisse, exposées en 1945, si l’on ajoute au douze Blouses les treize versions du <em>Rêve</em>.</p>
<p>Retournons à la plus célèbre version de la Blouse roumaine de Matisse, qui est exposée au Musée d’art moderne de Paris. Elle fut peinte en 1940, durant l’une des périodes la plus sombre de la guerre que la France ait eu à vivre sous l’occupation Nazie. Matisse allait bientôt abandonner Nice, qui allait être bombardée par les avions allemands, pour la relative sécurité de l’arrière-pays, à Vence. En lisant certains passages des journaux intimes de l’artiste écrits à cette époque, on peut se rendre compte que la gaîté de la Blouse roumaine agissait comme une antidote à la guerre, qu’elle représentait une lueur d’optimisme et d’espoir. Dans ce contexte, la signification de la Blouse roumaine pris de l’ampleur comme elle devenait l’objet d’une méditation philosophique. Que dit l’artiste ?</p>
<p><strong><em>Le rêve</em> (1940)</strong><br />
<em>De nouveau la guerre. Il y a ici un tel cafard, une angoisse générale qui vient de tout ce qui se dit et répète sur la prochaine occupation de Nice que j&#8217;en suis très affecté par contagion et mon travail est particulièrement difficile. Heureusement je viens de finir presque un tableau commencé il y a un an et que j&#8217;ai mené à l&#8217;aventure -en somme chacun de mes tableaux est une aventure. D&#8217;abord très réaliste, une belle brune dormant sur ma table de marbre au milieu de fruits, est devenue un ange qui dort sur une surface violette -le plus beau violet que j&#8217;aie vu, -ses chairs sont de rose de fleur pulpeuse et chaude -et le corsage de sa robe a été remplacé par une blouse roumaine ancienne, d&#8217;un bleu pervenche pâle très très doux, une blouse de broderie au petit point vieux rouge qui a dû appartenir à une princesse, avec une jupe d&#8217;abord vert émeraude et maintenant d&#8217;un noir de jais. Que tu es belle, ma messagère au bois dormant ! Tes yeux sont des colombes derrière leurs paupières. Et elle rêve d&#8217;un prince français prisonnier d&#8217;antan dont j&#8217;ai lu et relu les poèmes pour en faire un choix. Je me suis toujours méfié de la littérature, mais je ne l&#8217;ai pas seulement illustrée, je l&#8217;ai soigneusement, amoureusement recopiée, et l&#8217;on en trouve l&#8217;émerveillement dans mes thèmes.</em><br />
(<em>Cantique</em> de Matisse)</p>
<p>Donc le grand Matisse, alors presque âgé de 70 ans, rêve d’une princesse roumaine sous les traits d’une beauté endormie, et qui apporterait le réconfort durant les temps incertains de la guerre et de la vieillesse. La scène qu’il évoque est empruntée au Paris d’avant-guerre et même à un temps encore antérieur, à la Belle époque, avant la Première guerre mondiale, période que Matisse a connue dans sa jeunesse. C’était une époque où les princesses roumaines séduisaient les Français : Matisse avait peint vingt-cinq versions de ce thème, si l’on ajoute la série <em>Le rêve</em> à celle de <em>la Blouse roumaine.</em></p>
<p><strong>La Roumanie avant la Seconde guerre mondiale et l’Occident</strong></p>
<p>Il y eut des égéries roumaines qui fréquentèrent les salons parisiens. Voilà quelques-unes d’entre elles :<br />
On pensera en premier lieu à Maria Cantacuzino (Marie Cantacuzene) dont le portrait par Théodore Chasseriau (1819 – 1856) décore le Panthéon. Elle y représente Geneviève, la sainte patronne de Paris.<br />
Elena Vacarescu (Hélène Vacaresco), dont les poèmes d’amour furent chantés par Tino Rossi (Si tu voulais) et dont la vie amoureuse inspira le roman à succès de Pierre Loti L’Exilée. Elle donna son nom à un prix littéraire, le prix Vacaresco Femina (qui est une partie du prix Femina).<br />
Ou la célèbre comtesse de Noailles, née princesse Bassarabe-Brancovan (Basarab-Brancoveanu), la première femme à devenir commandeur de la Légion d’honneur. Les poèmes d’Anne de Noailles reçurent le Premier prix de l’Académie française, au tournant du siècle. Son portrait fut sculpté par Rodin et peint par Zuloaga.<br />
Ou sa cousine, la poétesse parnassienne et femme du monde Marthe Bibesco, qui inspira Marcel Proust, Cocteau, Paul Valéry et d’Annunzio et qui attira dans son entourage tous ses contemporains dont le nom comptait, avec le zèle de l’entomologiste consumé, qui épinglerait les coléoptères dans son armoire à prix.<br />
Ou peut-être la tragédienne Marie Ventura – un pilier de la Comédie Française qui surpassa la célèbre Sarah Bernhardt et devint l’actrice inoubliable des meilleures pièces classiques de Corneille, Racine, ou Molière.<br />
Ou encore, la fascinante Elvire Popesco (Elvira Popescu), comtesse de Foy, du <em>théâtre du Colombier</em> et plus tard de la <em>Comédie Française</em>, qui enchanta le public par son apparition dans <em>Ma cousine de Varsovie</em> et devint célèbre sous le sobriquet de <em>Notre dame du théâtre.</em> Popesco joua avec Sacha Guitry dans <em>Le paradis perdu</em>… Sans aucun doute, <em>Le paradis perdu</em> était un sujet de grande anxiété pour Matisse et le retour à la vie du souvenir de ces muses éthérées roumaines sous la forme de <em>la Blouse roumaine</em> était un acte de foi.</p>
<p><strong>La Roumanie d’après-guerre et l’Occident</strong></p>
<p>La guerre allait mettre un terme à cette liaison fertile entre la Roumanie et les cercles artistiques et littéraires parisiens, tout comme le lien naturel qui existait entre la Roumanie et l’Occident fut brisé par le rideau de fer. Alors, le pays allait vivre pendant cinquante ans les âges sombres de la censure idéologique, de l’emprisonnement et de l’extermination.<br />
Le fossé causé par ce retrait de la scène française fut comblé, d’une certaine manière, par un certain nombre d’exilés qui refusèrent de retourner dans leur pays perdu, mais leur joie de vivre fut émoussée par les angoisses liées à leur survie immédiate. Dans de rares occasions après la guerre froide, une soprano roumaine ou une ballerine pouvaient faire leur apparition, étincelante, sur la scène française, mais à cette époque le feu et l’imagination du public avait changé et l’impact n’avait plus rien à voir avec celui d’avant la guerre ou de la <em>Belle époque.</em> De plus, la Roumanie n’était désormais plus porteuse d’une image d’excellence intellectuelle mais était plutôt perçue comme un pays déshumanisé, la prison de l’histoire. Là-bas, non seulement les femmes partageaient les prisons de leurs maris, frères et fils, mais elles étaient de plus condamnées, à travers leurs corps,  à remplir les attentes du Démiurge en ce qui concernait la hausse de la natalité, comme lors d’expériences génétiques interminables de proportions kafkaïennes:</p>
<p><em>Un peuple entier,<br />
Pas encore né,<br />
Mais condamné à voir le jour,<br />
En colonnes avant de voir le jour,<br />
Foetus contre foetus,<br />
Un peuple entier,<br />
Qui ne voit pas, n’entend pas, ne comprend pas,<br />
Mais qui avance.<br />
A travers le corps ondulant des femmes,</em><br />
<em>A travers le sang des mères<br />
Qu’on ne consulte pas.</em><br />
(Alan Blandiana, <em>La croisade des enfants,</em> 1984)</p>
<p>La descente dans un tel cauchemar, auquel la femme roumaine sous le communisme a dû faire face sans pitié, n’était autre que celui choisi par la femme même du Démiurge, acclamée dans des vers extravagants par les poètes du jour, comme on peut le voir dans les vers de Corneliu Vadim Tudor, qui, après 1990, est devenu un dirigeant politique d’un parti et un membre du Parlement, représentant le mouvement de l’extrême-droite nationaliste, Romania Mare. Voilà ci-dessous les vers qui s’adressaient à Elena Ceausescu elle-même, cités par Gail Kligman (p.128) dans son livre <em>The politics of duplicity</em> – <em>controlling reproduction in Ceausescu’s Romania</em> (University of California Press 1998) :</p>
<p><em>Femeie creatoare – Slava Tie (Salut à toi, femme créatrice !)</em></p>
<p><em>Soit bénie, femme inventive !<br />
L’amour de la nation t’enveloppe,<br />
Erudite, personnage politique et mère en même temps.<br />
Toi, fort modèle à émuler, de charme et de sagesse<br />
Qui sera toujours sentie et suivie<br />
Sois pour toujours heureuse, toi, éternel symbole<br />
Des héroïnes roumaines que tu es devenue</em><br />
<em>Poussée de l’avant aux côtés du héros du pays<br />
Tout au long de la grande épopée du peuple roumain !</em></p>
<p>Durant un tel leadership épique d’un personnage si bien éduqué, incarné par Elena  &#8211; <em>La femme symbole de la création, aux côtés de son mari-héros Nicolae</em> &#8211; il n’était pas question pour aucune autre femme roumaine de se voir autoriser quelque exercice de création que ce soit, sauf en termes de reproduction.</p>
<p>Comme si une politique aussi inhumaine n’était pas suffisante, les Roumains sous Ceausescu souffrirent aussi de la menace constante d’être expropriés de leurs maisons, sous prétexte de la modernisation du pays, avec une vingtaine de centre-ville rasés jusqu’au sol, et l’architecture historique s’évanouissant avec eux, dans le but de faire de la place pour les blocs d’appartements de style staniliste. Les gens avaient 72 heures pour récupérer leurs affaires et déménager dans des cages à lapin. Ils abandonnaient leurs meubles et leurs animaux familiers dans les rues (d’où les chiens errants de Bucarest, qui sont devenus proverbiaux.)<br />
Pour ajouter à ce cauchemar social, afin de rendre le peuple peureux dans une soumission totale et de voler sa mémoire et sa fierté, durant le début des années 80, Ceausescu décida que la dette extérieure, contractée pour cause d’industrialisation déraisonnable, devrait être payée, et pour cela exporta la plupart des produits agricoles. Les Roumains se retrouvèrent sans denrées alimentaires de base et des queues de plusieurs mètres se formèrent devant les coopératives d’état, des queues où l’on attendait pendant des heures dans l’espoir que quelque chose de comestible soit achetable. Il n’y avait ni viande, ni poisson, ni oeufs, ni légumes – seulement quelques pommes de terre pourries, de temps en temps, qui ne convenaient pas pour nourrir les cochons et dans un bon jour on pouvait trouver des griffes de poulet avec lesquelles ont pouvait préparer un bouillon (voir Eugenia Velescu).<br />
Le désespoir complet lié à la faim est résumé dans une lettre ouverte envoyée par les femmes de Roumanie à Elena Ceausescu, en 1980 (voir faim, pommes de terre), lettre qui fut publiée à l’Ouest. Les Roumains, connus pour leur esprit rebelle qui les autorise à rire même quand ils souffrent, comme l’expression d’une ultime catharsis ( <em>a face haz de nacaz</em>) pouvaient au moins sourire amèrement lorsqu’ils entendaient les enfants bohémiens roumains chanter leur parodie d’un chant de Noël, en 1980, neuf ans avant que le tyran et sa femme ne tombent, un jour de Noël.</p>
<div id="attachment_405" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 198px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rizea_cover.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-405" title="rizea_cover" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rizea_cover.gif" alt="Elisabeta Rizea, paysannes des Carpates qui a subi la torture des prisons communistes pour avoir aide le maquis" width="188" height="270" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Elisabeta Rizea, paysanne des Carpates qui a subi la torture des prisons communistes pour avoir aidé le maquis</p></div>
<p>Durant presque un demi-siècle, l’esprit de <em>la Blouse roumaine </em>souffrit d’une longue période d’éclipse, mais survécut pour raconter son histoire : ce sont les voix des femmes roumaines que nous avons introduites dans cette anthologie – quelques-unes célèbres, d’autres abominables et la plupart d’entre elles avec la fraîcheur de celles qui ne savent pas qu’elles sont des héroïnes – de simples fermières qui dépérissent dans des camps en Sibérie, des femmes de pasteur qui souffrent à cause de leur croyance religieuse, des femmes effacées qui furent envoyées dans des camps de concentration pour expier les choix politiques de leurs maris, ou pour d’autres pêchés que d’avoir publié le travail de leurs femmes – des femmes qui dans le cours normal des événements auraient traversé la vie sans qu’on les remarque, mais dont les tourments sous un régime génocidaire les mit en lumière dans la conscience de leur pays, pour leur bravoure, l’expression lyrique de leur souffrance, des femmes qui luttèrent dans le maquis et qui furent enterrées sous de fausses identités, et d’autres dont le corps fut jeté dans une fosse commune, sans nom – les noms de ces héroïnes ne peuvent se compter mais leur accumulation mérite notre attention.</p>
<p>Après la chute de Ceausescu, l’image de <em>la Blouse roumaine</em> retrouva graduellement sa place, lentement, comme le réveil après un cauchemar surréaliste : est-ce que la transition existe ? Est-ce pour de vrai ? Le passé va-t-il se répéter ? Dans ce sens, une mise en garde fut émise par le porte-parole du Parlement polonais lorsqu’il déclara : « <em>Il ne faut que quelques semaines aux Empires pour s’écrouler, mais la mentalité impérialiste a besoin de plusieurs générations avant de disparaître.</em> »</p>
<p>Les blouses ethniques portées par les femmes paysannes étaient à la mode parmi les classes sociales supérieures depuis que les princesses de la famille royale roumaine ont commencé à les porter, vers le milieu du XIXeme siècle, a l’instar d’Elisabeth de Roumanie (voir Carmen Sylva) et plus tard, de la reine Marie et de ses filles.</p>
<p>Si l’on prend en compte le passage tumultueux de l’histoire récente, on peut se demander si les femmes roumaines vont reconquérir leur réputation étincelante, telle qu’elles l’avaient connue avant la guerre. Vue d’ici, la réponse n’est pas simple et la route tortueuse. La seule réputation qu’elles semblent avoir gagné actuellement à l’Ouest, est, tristement, une réputation de pauvreté et de désespérance, qui a poussé les statistiques sur les jeunes femmes issues de la Balkan vortex a de hauts niveaux de prostitution. Bien après la chute de Ceausescu, ses enfants qui furent un jour “condamnés a naître” sont aujourd’hui destinés à mendier pour assurer leur subsistance, à vendre leurs corps…</p>
<p>Cela prendra du temps avant que la Beauté endormie de la toile de Matisse ne se réveille pour enchanter une fois encore la scène mondiale.<br />
Ce jour viendra, mais dans le même temps la princesse de la Blouse roumaine devra être vigilante à ce que le rêve devienne réalité, tout comme l’ange dépeint par le Maître, dans son journal écrit par temps de guerre.</p>
<p>(Extrait de l&#8217;Anthologie des femmes Roumaines, traduction du livre paru en Anglais sous le titre: <em>&#8216;Blouse Roumaine &#8211; the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women&#8217;,</em> introduced and edited by Constantin ROMAN,  Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009.<br />
<strong>http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html</strong></p>
<p><strong>© copyright Constantin ROMAN, 2003-2009, all rights reserved<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women
WHAT THE READERS SAY:

* "It is a Herculean Work..." (Editor, Buenos Aires)

* "It is beautifully written and meticulously researched and presented. It is accessible to the lay reader and will be a treasure-trove for further research by academics drawn from a wide range of disciplines " (Political Analyst, UK)

* "For those who think that Romania is nothing more than Dracula and Ceausescu, the book has a lot to teach you... ' (IT geek, London)

* "Constantin Roman invites us for a walk, during which he enjoins past and present alike, in a brisk coming and going of the narrative. It is a narrative that cannot suddenly end, but rather one which compels us to start all over again and revisit. It is a truly wonderful gift, a very happy surprise indeed of an inherently original book, which haunts us like the persistent music of those Romanian women’s voices." (French Government Adviser, Paris)

* There is no doubt, what so ever, that if Romania is the creation of a male society as well as of political conjectures, its place in the Western European psyche is entirely due to its women, who knew how to impose their reputation in the aristocratic salons of Paris, in the world of literature, or in the English clubs so intimately linked to politics. For “Blouse Roumaine” is an incursion charged with passion, which conjures varied names, such as Queen Marie of Romania, Countess Anna de Noailles, the Princess Bibesco, or the actress Elvire Popesco, not forgetting the diabolic Ana Pauker and Elena Ceausescu." (Art Historian, Paris)

* "... an audaceeous choice..." (Reader, France)

* "So long as the masculine and the feminine are not absolutely complementary notions in terms of fair percentages, it is a good idea to write a book about Romanian Women of World repute." (Novelist, Argentina)

* "... it represents the idea of metamodernism as cultural paradigm to an alternative synthesis of modern and postmodern paradigms" (Researcher, New Zealand)

* ...an easy book, which offered me, at least, the joy of reading an interesting, well-documented Anthology, without being bored." (American Scientist)

* ' Blouse Romaine' is a fascinating book about women who, for the sake of their ideals, sacrificed everything in order to safeguard basic values of humanity, generosity and compassion, women who fought the communist dragon imposed by fellow women. (Researcher, Cluj, Transylvania)

http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cover1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-385" title="cover1" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cover1-211x300.jpg" alt="cover1" width="211" height="300" /></a> <span style="color: #ff6600;">&#8216;Blouse Roumaine &#8211; the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women&#8217;</span></strong></p>
<p>An Anthology of 19th and 20th century Romanian Women</p>
<p>1,100 pages,  Social and political Overview, 160 biographies, 600 Quotations, 4,000 references,</p>
<p>E-Book available to download,<br />
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Examples of biographies:<br />
<strong>ARISTOCRATS:</strong> Pss Catherine Caradja, Pss Marina Stirbey,<br />
<strong>BALLERINAS</strong>: Alina Cojocaru, Magdalena Popa, Ruxandra Racovitza<br />
<strong>COURTESANS</strong>: Pss Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy), Elena Lupescu<br />
<strong>DESIGNERS</strong>: Mica Ertegün<br />
EXPLORERS: Lady Florence Baker<br />
<strong>GYMNASTS</strong>: Nadia Comaneci<br />
<strong>MOVIE STARS</strong>: Lauren Bacall, Aurora Fulgida, Maria Forescu, Nadia Grey, Elvire Popesco, Silvia Sidney<br />
<strong>OPERA DIVAS</strong>: Maria Cebotari, Viorica Cortez, Ileana Cotrubas, Angela Gheorghiu, Nelly Miricioiu, Leontina Vaduva, Virginia Zeani<br />
<strong>PAINTERS:</strong> Ioana Celibidache, Nathalie Dumitresco, Micaela  Eleutheriade<br />
<strong>PIANISTS:</strong> Cella Delavrancea, Clara Haskil, Madeleine Lipatti<br />
<strong>POETS</strong>: Ana Blandiana, Nina Cassian, Anna de Noailles, Helene Vacaresco<br />
<strong>POLITICAL PRISONERS:</strong> Ioana Arnautoiu, Madeleine Cancicov, Ana Novac, Elisabeta Rizea, Annie Samuelli, Sabina Wurmbrand<br />
<strong>POLITICIANS;</strong> Elena Ceausescu, Hortense Cornu, Ana Pauker<br />
<strong>REVOLUTIONARIES:</strong> Maria Grant Rosetti,<br />
<strong>ROYALTY</strong>: Carmen Sylva, Pss Ileana, Archduchess of Austria, Queen Marie, Pss of Great Britain, Queen Anna, Pss of Denmark and of Bourbon-Parme, Helen Queen Mother of Romania, Pss of Greece,<br />
<strong>SCIENTISTS: </strong>Ana Aslan, Ioana Meitani, Elisabeth Roudinesco<br />
<strong>STAGE &amp; COSTUME DESIGNERS:</strong> Maria Bjornson, Marie-Jeanne Lecca<br />
<strong>VIOLINISTS:</strong> Lola Bobescu, Silvia Marcovici<br />
<strong>WRITERS:</strong> Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco, Marthe Bibesco, Alina Diaconu, Dora d&#8217;Istria, Marie-France Ionesco, Doina Jela, Oana Orlea</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>WHAT THE READERS SAY:</strong></span></p>
<p>*  &#8220;It is a Herculean Work&#8230;&#8221; (Editor,  Buenos Aires)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;It is beautifully written and meticulously researched and presented. It is accessible to the lay reader and will be a treasure-trove for further research by academics drawn from a wide range of disciplines &#8221; (Political Analyst, UK)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;For those who think that Romania is nothing more than Dracula and Ceausescu, the book has a lot to teach you&#8230;  &#8216; (IT geek, London)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;Constantin Roman invites us for a walk, during which he enjoins past and present alike, in a brisk coming and going of the narrative. It is a narrative that cannot suddenly end, but rather one which compels us to start all over again and revisit. It is a truly wonderful gift, a very happy surprise indeed of an inherently original book, which haunts us like the persistent music of those Romanian women’s voices.&#8221; (French Government Adviser, Paris)</p>
<p>*  There is no doubt, what so ever, that if Romania is the creation of a male society as well as of political conjectures, its place in the Western European psyche is entirely due to its women, who knew how to impose their reputation in the aristocratic salons of Paris, in the world of literature, or in the English clubs so intimately linked to politics. For “Blouse Roumaine” is an incursion charged with passion, which conjures varied names, such as Queen Marie of Romania, Countess Anna de Noailles, the Princess Bibesco, or the actress Elvire Popesco, not forgetting the diabolic Ana Pauker and Elena Ceausescu.&#8221; (Art Historian, Paris)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;&#8230; an audaceeous choice&#8230;&#8221; (Reader, France)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;So long as the masculine and the feminine are not absolutely complementary notions in terms of fair percentages, it is a good idea to write a book about Romanian Women of World repute.&#8221; (Novelist, Argentina)</p>
<p>*  &#8220;&#8230; it represents the idea of metamodernism as cultural paradigm to an  alternative synthesis of modern and postmodern paradigms&#8221; (Researcher, New Zealand)</p>
<p>*  &#8230;an easy book, which offered me, at least, the joy of reading an interesting, well-documented Anthology, without being bored.&#8221; (American Scientist)</p>
<p>*  &#8216; Blouse Romaine&#8217; is a fascinating book about women who, for the sake of their ideals, sacrificed everything in order to safeguard basic values of humanity, generosity and compassion, women who fought the  communist dragon imposed by fellow women. (Researcher, Cluj, Transylvania)</p>
<p><a title="Buy 'Blouse Roumaine'" href="http://">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html</a></p>
<p>Constantin Roman © 2009. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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		<title>Romanian Destinies in The Times of London Obituary: Monica Lovinescu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romanian dissident whose broadcasts from exile in Paris enraged the communist authorities
Monica Lovinescu
Asked in April 2002 about her opinion on the desirability of a Nuremberg-style trial of communism, Lovinescu answered:

The trial of communism might have offered Romanian mentality a real chance for change. The handful of initiatives taken so far are built entirely on moving sands. We cannot consider a Nuremberg-style trial simply because that involves winners and losers. Or, in this particular instance, communism lost its own war: it simply imploded, not exploded. But one should consider at least a moral prosecution. It is impossible to contemplate the fact that torturers in Romania have not been yet morally indicted.

Monica Lovinescu, M.Litt., Grand Officer, Order of the Star of Romania, was married to fellow journalist, literary critic and political analyst Virgil Ierunca (1920-2006). They leave no children and their estate has been bequeathed to a Romanian government foundation.

Monica Lovinescu
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The voice of the journalist and human rights activist Monica Lovinescu in her regular Paris broadcasts to the people of Romania during the postwar decades became synonymous with freedom and was a lifeline for those listeners behind the Iron Curtain.

As a result she was severely beaten up on the orders of the communist authorities in Bucharest, and, in a vengeful act, her elderly mother was sent to prison, where she died. ]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">OBITUARY</span><br />
(commissioned by The Times, 25 April 2008)<br />
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<p>Monica LOVINESCU<br />
(19 November 1923, Bucharest &#8211; 20 April 2008, Paris)<br />
Romanian francophone Journalist, broadcaster, literary critic, political analyst, anti-communist and human rights activist, exile in France<br />
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<p>Journalist and broadcaster Monica Lovinescu, was born in 1923, in Bucharest, the daughter of literary critic Eugen Lovinescu and Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu. She graduated with an M.Litt. in 1946 and after being granted a scholarship by the French government left for Paris in 1947. By the time Romania was declared a People’s Republic and the Iron Curtain had come down, Lovinescu was granted political asylum. As a literary critic and journalist surviving on the written word alone, Lovinescu could not have anticipated the climate confronting Romanian exiles in post-war France, which she recalled in her memoirs:</p>
<p>‘The French intellectuals not only positioned themselves to the left, but they were already mentally ‘sovietised’. Any attempt at opening the eyes of those intellectuals to make them more receptive to the plight of their fellow professionals in Eastern Europe was rejected as ‘fascist’ as soon as they declared themselves anti-communists’.</p>
<p>Such differences were the source of ongoing intellectual battles for the hearts and minds in French society, in spite of such revealing events as occurred in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, or Gdansk in 1981.  Even after the fall of Berlin wall in 1989, East European exiles were still branded as ‘visceral anti-communists’, an indictment intended to silence through isolation. Yet in spite of such dictums as Jean-Paul Sartre’s  (‘the anti-Communist is a dog’),</p>
<p><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/1967_la_vingt_cinquieme_heure.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-164" title="1967_la_vingt_cinquieme_heure" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/1967_la_vingt_cinquieme_heure.jpg" alt="1967_la_vingt_cinquieme_heure" width="205" height="300" /></a> Lovinescu was not for turning. Monica Lovinescu instead took up the role of freelance translator, publishing in her adoptive country many Romanian novels including <strong>Virgil Gheorghiu</strong>’s best seller <em><strong>La vingt-cinquième heure.</strong></em> Her translation was adapted for the big screen in The 25th Hour (1967) by Carlo Ponti, starring Anthony Quinn and Michael Redgrave.<br />
Lovinescu also acted as an informal literary agent for her friend Eugène Ionesco, whose play <em>The Bald Primadonna</em> she recommended to avant-garde theatre director Nicolas Bataille, introducing Ionesco as ‘<em>a young playwright with a funny name</em>’. Bataille instantly liked the play, which ends with the audience being ‘shot’, and although Lovinescu was a joint producer she insisted her name be omitted from the posters.</p>
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<p>In her unassuming fashion, it was typical of Lovinescu to maintain that her contribution to Ionesco’s reputation was ‘inessential’. In retrospect, however, her vision was clear and message forthright. Her persistence paid off and soon the play was winning the plaudits of such seasoned critics as André Breton, Raymond Queneau, and Albert Camus. In the end the French public followed suit and the Theatre of the Absurd gained recognition.</p>
<p>Monica Lovinescu always remained devoted to her circle of Romanian exiles which included Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran, but increasingly grew weary of acting as an intermediary for other authors. Instead she decided to dedicate more time to a career in broadcasting and journalism. She produced a huge number of articles in a myriad of cultural and political periodicals:<em> East Europe, Kontinent, Preuves, L&#8217;Alternative, Les Cahiers de L&#8217;Est, Témoignages, La France Catholique,</em> to name but a few and in the Romanian press in exile: <em>Luceàfarul, Caiete de Dor, Fiinta Româneascà, Ethos, Contrapunct, Dialog, Agora.</em></p>
<p>Most importantly Lovinescu’s broadcasting activities had a much wider international impact, especially in Romania, where her contribution to literary criticism, as much as to political analysis, were the subject of regular transmissions on Radiodiffusion Française and Radio Free Europe. Henceforth the voice of Monica Lovinescu became synonymous to the voice of freedom and a lifeline for those listeners behind the Iron Curtain, hitherto deprived of any alternative views. Monica Lovinescu’s <em>‘Thèses et Anti-Thèses’</em> and the ‘<em>Current Romanian Culture</em>’ series would dispel the smoke screen of  communist propaganda.</p>
<p>This was particularly important at a time when Nicolae Ceuasescu, the shoemaker dictator became the ‘darling’ of the West with his avowed ‘anti-Soviet’ stance. By contrast Monica Lovinescu’s was a singular, if discordant voice. She consistently resisted the psychological pressure of those ‘agents’ which she perceived as a real threat to Western civilization and which were bent on destroying it.<br />
Lovinescu could see clearly through Ceausescu’s own brand of national communism, the myth of popular support he enjoyed at home and the ‘originality’ of his ideas. Lovinescu dismissed such humbug saying:</p>
<div id="attachment_166" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ceausescu_book5-633ba2cd-4050c24b.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-166" title="ceausescu_book5-633ba2cd-4050c24b" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ceausescu_book5-633ba2cd-4050c24b-150x150.jpg" alt="Ceausescu ordered the physical assault on Ms Lovinescu in Paris." width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ceausescu ordered the physical assault on Ms Lovinescu in Paris.</p></div>
<p><em>These lies are at the root of a suicidal complicity between the hangman and his victims. It is through this very act that we secured for ourselves our ‘originality’ within the communist context. The antagonism between ‘Them’ and ‘Us’, (…) dissolved in the derisive. On that tragic Shakespearean stage all characters of prime stature had disappeared, leaving behind only the buffoons, whose ribaldry is hollow.</em></p>
<p>Lovinescu’s tremendous media activities attracted the inevitable attention of the régime in Bucharest at a time when silencing the voices at home was defined by utmost brutality. In 1958 her 71-year-old mother was arrested, the family flat in Bucharest was ransacked, books and papers either burnt or confiscated. Lovinescu’s mother was incarcerated and given an eighteen-year sentence for ‘undermining the State order and passing secrets to a foreign power’. The sentence was then, as was customary,  bartered against her daughter’s return to Romania, a deal that her mother refused. She died shortly thereafter, only two years into her 18 year sentence, aged 72, having been refused all medical attention, her body thrown into an unmarked grave.</p>
<p>But her personal tragedy only steeled Monica’s resolve to fight for human rights. During the 1970’s and 80’s Ceausescu resorted to more brutal action abroad. Four of Monica’s colleagues at Radio Free Europe in Munich were either assassinated or died in suspicious circumstances and other prominent Romanian exiles received letter bombs. Ceausescu himself took control of the operations and Carlos ‘the Jackal’ was instructed to carry out retribution.</p>
<p>According to General Ion Pacepa, the deputy chief of the Romanian foreign intelligence services and defector, Ceausescu was reputed to have instructed his henchmen:</p>
<p><em>Monica Lovinescu must be silenced, not killed. I do not need any uncomfortable French and American investigations… I want her to become a living corpse. Use foreign hands, so that no evidence can turn up that could lead back to the Romanian connection.</em></p>
<p>In 1977, Lovinescu was attacked by a hired PLO hit squad outside her Paris home. Luckily the assailants fled as neighbours were alerted but the victim was still left with severe head injuries. She revived from her hospital coma only to resume her crusade with a handful of Romanian friends including Marie-France Ionesco, Sanda Stolojan and Michel Foucault, the French Marxist and Structuralist philosopher. They exposed Ceausescu’s atrocities at anti-totalitarian vigils in front of  the Romanian embassy in Paris.</p>
<p>Monica Lovinescu outlived Ceausescu whose exit culminated in his televised trial and execution in 1989. Ten years on, in recognition of her life-long contribution to Romanian political and cultural life, Ms Lovinescu was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, by the democratic-liberal President, Emil Constantinescu.</p>
<p>Asked in April 2002 about her opinion on the desirability of a Nuremberg-style trial of communism, Lovinescu answered:</p>
<p><em>The trial of communism might have offered Romanian mentality a real chance for change. The handful of initiatives taken so far are built entirely on moving sands. We cannot consider a Nuremberg-style trial simply because that involves winners and losers. Or, in this particular instance, communism lost its own war: it simply imploded, not exploded. But one should consider at least a moral prosecution. It is impossible to contemplate the fact that torturers in Romania have not been yet morally indicted.</em></p>
<p>Monica Lovinescu, M.Litt., Grand Officer, Order of the Star of Romania, was married to fellow journalist, literary critic and political analyst Virgil Ierunca (1920-2006). They leave no children and their estate has been bequeathed to a Romanian government foundation.</p>
<p>Constantin Roman © 2008-2009. All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p>NOTE:<br />
The Romanian Media has translated (with predictable liberal approximation) the Times Obituary of Monica Lovinescu. However what was truly striking (although perhaps unsurprising) is that ALL, but absolutely ALL newspapers without exception have applied that ubiquitous expectation of “self-censorship” which required them to omit ANY reference to the defector and ex-Securitate General Ion Pacepa as well as to Ceausescu’s practice of ordering the murder and intimidation of dissidents: in a 2009 Survey on the <strong>Freedom of the Press</strong> (or lack of it) <strong>Romania came 85th </strong>amongst all the countries of the World &#8211; not bad at all for a country which claims to be democratic but cheats on Democracy, twenty years after the dictator was put down!<br />
The above text is unabridged, as it was published in the London Times, in April 2008.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">ROMANIA VAZUTA “ALTFEL”:</span><br />
<em><strong>‘Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women’</strong></em><br />
(O carte in limba Engleza, 1.100 pagini, 160 biografii)</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">De ce  si pentru ce “altfel’?</span><br />
Din mai multe puncte de vedere:</p>

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<p><strong>In primul rand</strong> mesajul  lucrarii NU este unul  ‘oficial’, parafat de cei care ne dramuiesc adevarul. Autorul este constient de faptul ca traim intr-o perioada a nesfarsitei “Tranzitii”  unde bajbaim inca, pe carari intortocheate, ca sa ne aflam identitatea,  Pe aceleasi carari misuna ‘experti’,  autoproclamati ‘boieri ai mintii’, care nu numai ca isi dau coate intre ei ca sa ramana in capul bucatelor, dar sunt gata ori si cand sa ne abureasca memoria si sa ne re-scrie istoria. Metodele sunt aceleasi care au fost  folosite sub dictatura: o amnezie preprogramata, urmata de un facsimile cosmetizat atat de neverosimil incat tipa dela distanta.</p>
<p>Acest fenomen nu este unul propriu Romaniei ci se afla in speta in toate tarile ‘ex-comuniste’ fiind insumat perfect de simplu si plastic de catre un parlamentar Polonez cand a afirmat:</p>
<p><em>&#8216;Imperiile se destrama doar in cateva saptamani, in timp ce mentalitatea imperiala are nevoie de cateva generatii ca sa dispara&#8217;.</em></p>
<p>Antologia de fata nu isi poate permite sa ‘corecteze’ dintr-un condei aceste aberatii care se impamantenesc, dar isi propane in schimb sa  ofere cititorului o lucrare sub un unghi ‘alternativ’ si pe undeva neconformist, despre o realitate istorica perceputa &#8216;de partea cealalta a baricadei&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>In al doilea rand</strong> alegerea subiectului si al punctului de referinta, plasarea lui intr-un context istoric si social dar si intr-un cadru European, plaseaza  antologia “Blouse Roumaine” intr-o categorie foarte diferita.<br />
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<p><strong>In al treilea rand, </strong>ca Forma, lucrarea se adreseaza nu numai specialistilor din Universitati dar si publicului larg, facand-o accesibila unei categorii mari de cititori romani si straini.</p>
<p>In acest context formatul Antologiei ofera pentru prima data cititorilor Anglo-Saxoni, nefamiliarizati cu Romania, posibilitatea de a intelege ca Romanii nu au fost doar simpli consumatori ale unor valori Euuropene dar au contribuit in mod substantial la cultura Europeana si de peste Ocean. Aici Antologia evoca o panoplie intreaga de voci de femei de profesii foarte diverse si uneori neasteptate evocand astfel imagini cu totul insolite si admirabile: femei ramase in Romania dar si femei desradacinate, care au luat drumul exilului sau  care s-au nascut pe pamant strain doar pentru ca parintii sau bunicii  lor s-au exilat, femei care au reusit in mod extraordinar sa isi pastreze valentele romanesti.</p>
<p>Pe parcursul cartii vom putea face o selectie dintre cele o suta saizeci de biografii critice sau ne vom putea delecta alegand dintre cele sase sute de citate, in majoritate traduse pentru prima oara in limba engleza. Aici se vor gasi nu numai citate in proza dar si versuri. Cei care ar dori sa aprofundeze unele aspecte specifice au la dispozitie o bibliografie de circa 4.000 referinte inclusiv situri web (URL), credite de spectacole, recitaluri si expozitii, inregistrari audio, s.a.<br />
Iata de ce, fara nici un dubiu  “Blouse Roumaine” se poate considera o carte  “altfel”. o Antologie foarte diferita care ramane, totusi, o carte de capatai  si poate un manual de studiu pentru  aprofundarea subiectelor de interes mai specializat.<br />
Cautarea selectiva este usurata considerabil de existenta a nu mai putin de sase Indexuri organizate pe profesii, subiecte de citate,  localitati geografice, nume de familie, sau ordine alfabetica sau cronologic.</p>
<p>Stilul lucrarii este voit alert si accesibil si  prin urmare usor de parcurs,  sau asa cum marturisea o cititoare din Texas:</p>
<p><em>&#8216;la inceput mi-a fost teama ca ar fi fost o carte plictisitoare, dar citind-o mi-am dat seama ca mi-a oferit o lectura foarte placuta si instructiva&#8217;.</em></p>
<p>O alta cititoare din Hawai a scris:</p>
<p><em>&#8216;reticenta initiala de a cumpara cartea a rezultat din teama ca ar fi fost o carte  academica, arida, dar citind rezumatul si unele pgini accesibile liber pe Internet m-am decis sa o comand&#8217;.</em><br />
Autorului i-a fost placut sa constate ca dimensiunea Europeana a Antologiei a fost recunoscuta de experti de formatie foarte diferita, din afara perimetrului de interes romanesc, respectiv cercetatori ai literaturii franceze, muzicologi, istorici, sociologi, etnografi, comentatori politici, ziaristi.</p>
<p><strong>Mesaj catre cititorul Roman:</strong><br />
<strong>Daca traiesti in Romania</strong> si ai impresia si ti-ai pastrat curiozitatea si dorinta de a-ti recupera Memoria pierduta sub Dictatura sau falsificata sub Tranzitie si ai vrea  sa ai acces la un unghi ‘diferit’ – atunci <strong>&#8220;Blouse Roumaine&#8221; este o carte pentru tine</strong>, plina de surprize placute si informatii noi, provocatoare.</p>
<p><strong>Daca traiesti in strainatate</strong> si esti plictisit de stereotipia care ni se aplica noua Romanilor in mod injust si reductiv &#8211; despre Dracula, orfelinate, prostitutie, coruptie, violuri, cersetorie sau saracie si vrei  sa tii capul sus si sa demonstrezi copiilor, prietenilor, vecinilor, sau colegilor tai de la birou, ca Romanii sunt “altfel”, traiesc si gandesc “altfel” si ca au fost si sunt destul de talentati ca sa contribuie la valorile universale, dincolo de manele, de mici,  de cantece de pahar sau de dorinta de a ne pricopsi peste noapte, indiferent de mijloace, atunci <strong>“Blouse Roumaine” este o carte pentru time.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Daca esti profesor de liceu sau universitar si esti de origine Romana predand in Strainatate sau in Romania, </strong>atunci<strong> </strong>poti folosi &#8220;Blouse Roumaine&#8221; in cursurile tale, poti recomanda studentilor cartea,  sau o poti recomanda bibliotecii institutiei unde predai ca sa o cumpere (costul vanzarilor merg pentru a genera o editie tiparita (paperback) precum si pentru a genera noi lucrari de cercetare de interes romanesc.  Aici nu este vorba de o favoare personala ci mai degraba de o simpla recunoastere a unei valori intrinseci a  cartii, asa cum a fost recunoscuta mai intai de straini si in strainatate si deci poate fi considerata si de romani neconstransi de acele retineri sau prejudicii Mioritice, care ne dauneaza atat de mult!</p>
<p><strong>Daca esti un official Roman, diplomat, politician, functionar public, director al unui ONG, editor de revista sau ziar (inclusiv Director al Institutului Roman, Ministru al Culturii sau al Turismului) </strong>si vrei sa demonstrezi ca realitatea este “altfel” si ca am fi inceput de mult procesul de NORMALIZARE, de a ne fi debarasat de acea “mentalitate imperiala”, inoculata de un imperiu acum apus, atunci <strong>“Blouse Roumaine” este o carte pentru tine: </strong>felicitarile cu adevarat sincere se pot demonstra doar prin promovarea activa a acestei carti prin publicarea rezumatului, sau a unei evaluari critice, al unui LINK  pe site-ul tau, sau asa cum ar spune Englezul:</p>
<p><em>The proof is in the pudding.</em></p>
<p>ceea ce intr-o traducere mai libera ar insemna:</p>
<p><em>Dovada se poate gasi chiar in meniul care il consumam,</em></p>
<p><em>sau intr-o fraza mai vernaculara:</em></p>
<p><em>Gustul este in placinta care o mestecam!</em><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Constantin Roman © 2009. All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">CUMPARA:</span><br />
<strong><a title="Anthololgy Romanian Women" href="http://">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.htm</a>l</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">EXTRASE/LINK</span>:<br />
<a title="&quot;Blouse Roumaine&quot; Anthology Excerpts" href="http://"><strong>http://www.blouseroumaine.com/freeexcerpt_download.html</strong></a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women’
An E-Book Anthology by Constantin ROMAN
Synopsis

A Spanish grandee and Ambassador to the Court of St James’s once compared the success of an Anthology to that of a culinary chef d’oeuvre: for Santiago de Mora Figueroa y Williams, Marques of Tamarón, a great Anglophile but also a refined European:

    The perfect anthology, like the perfect hors d'oeuvre, should turn us into gluttons. The many small dishes add up to a balanced and nourishing meal, but they are so exquisite that they whet one's appetite for more. And the anthology should also include unexpected delicacies, things that even the literary gourmet had not heard about.

blouse-roumaine-cover2On a deeper reflection, Tamarón’s metaphor encapsulates perfectly well the ethos of the ‘Blouse Roumaine’. Yet, as an Anthology of Romanian women, this corpus was initially conceived to connect with a French painting of Henri Matisse - the eponymous canvas, ‘La Blouse Roumaine’ (1940), which hangs today in the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris: for every and each biography contained in this Women’s Anthology is like a minutely embroidered stitch on an ethnic tapestry, such as we have admired, not so long ago in the Retrospective exhibition of Matisse’s collection of textiles, presented at the Royal Academy in London and later also shown in New York. For those of us who missed this exhibition the analogy to the current book is like a roll call of women presented in a sequence of biographical cameos. These sketches are displayed like a series of miniatures in a virtual National Portrait Gallery: they are all glittering stars from Western galaxies and Eastern nebulae, in all 160 of them…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>‘<span style="color: #ff6600;">Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women’</span></strong><span style="color: #ff6600;"><br />
An E-Book Anthology by Constantin ROMAN<br />
Synopsis</span></p>
<p>A Spanish grandee and Ambassador to the Court of St James’s once compared the success of an Anthology to that of a culinary chef d’oeuvre: for Santiago de Mora Figueroa y Williams, Marques of Tamarón, a great Anglophile but also a refined European:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The perfect anthology, like the perfect hors d&#8217;oeuvre, should turn us into gluttons. The many small dishes add up to a balanced and nourishing meal, but they are so exquisite that they whet one&#8217;s appetite for more. And the anthology should also include unexpected delicacies, things that even the literary gourmet had not heard about.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blouse-roumaine-cover2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137" title="blouse-roumaine-cover2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/blouse-roumaine-cover2.jpg" alt="blouse-roumaine-cover2" width="268" height="298" /></a>On a deeper reflection, Tamarón’s metaphor encapsulates perfectly well the ethos of the ‘Blouse Roumaine’. Yet, as an Anthology of Romanian women, this corpus was initially conceived to connect with a French painting of Henri Matisse &#8211; the eponymous canvas, ‘La Blouse Roumaine’ (1940), which hangs today in the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris: for every and each biography contained in this Women’s Anthology is like a minutely embroidered stitch on an ethnic tapestry, such as we have admired, not so long ago in the Retrospective exhibition of Matisse’s collection of textiles, presented at the Royal Academy in London and later also shown in New York. For those of us who missed this exhibition the analogy to the current book is like a roll call of women presented in a sequence of biographical cameos. These sketches are displayed like a series of miniatures in a virtual National Portrait Gallery: they are all glittering stars from Western galaxies and Eastern nebulae, in all 160 of them…</p>
<p>The manuscript gestation involved a work of love and dedication, spanning over several years, a creation which gradually came to life very much like in the Marques of Tamarón’s definition &#8211; a “menu of diverse and delicious hors d’oeuvres, visually appealing” but at the same time teasing the imagination and stimulating the taste: for such choice not only offers food for thought as well as for the heart, but also food for academic appetite, extending the frontiers of taste beyond the familiar courses of history, politics, literature, music, film, theatre, feminism or science &#8211; for ‘Blouse Roumaine’ is at the same time a trans-disciplinary book.</p>
<p>This subjective if somewhat esoteric compilation of impressionistic essays is preceded by a historical, cultural and political overview of Romanian society. This introductory social fresco sets the tone of the narrative which is perceived through a European looking glass, allowing the reader to consider Romania not in its exotic isolation, but as part of a much broader  ‘concert of nations’ and therefore evaluate it within a familiar territory. These will be countries such as France, Italy or Britain which for the last two hundred years were the playground of Romanian aristocrats (Bibesco, Noailles, Ghika, Brancovan, Cantacuzène)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/marthebibesco2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-130" title="marthebibesco2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/marthebibesco2-288x300.jpg" alt="marthebibesco2" width="194" height="201" /></a></p>
<p>and lately the land of exile of many an uprooted artist and writer (Brancusi, Ionesco, Cioran, Eliade, Georges Enesco, Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Nadia Gray, Elvire Popesco, Hélène Vacaresco).</p>
<p>The Anthology is complemented by texts often published for the first time in English  and sourced from over 4,000 French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German references.  Six hundred quotations convey the narrative an arcane erudition inviting the reader on a joyful pursuit of an abstruse and little-explored subject. This is virgin territory offering sheer delight.</p>
<p>As we turn the pages of this book we are made witness to an exotic cavalcade of female characters who conjure the scent, colour and voices of time past to the present day, from the sunflower fields of the Danube Plains to the darkest forests of Transylvania, from the languid music of the Carpathian panpipes to the uplifting Parisian literary salons and the stages of La Scala, Covent Garden and the Metropolitan operas, <a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/haricleadarclee6.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-138" title="haricleadarclee6" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/haricleadarclee6.jpg" alt="haricleadarclee6" width="207" height="321" /></a>or the prestigious Comédie Française and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Further afield some of these intrepid amazons reached the distant shores of the river de la Plata, or, in the 19th century discovered the sources of the White Nile.<br />
Yet, if such momentous revelations were not surprising enough, ‘Blouse Roumaine’ would also evoke associations with scores of famous glitterati and politicians of European and American dimension… For these women of the Orient Express disembarking in Milan, Paris, London, New York or Buenos Aires, women who inspired poets and composers, who created new opera roles, these muses enthralled political eagles and aristocrats alike, caused crown heads to dream and lesser mortals to lose their heads.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/liane_de_pougy_pss-ghika.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-131" title="liane_de_pougy_pss-ghika" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/liane_de_pougy_pss-ghika-183x300.jpg" alt="liane_de_pougy_pss-ghika" width="183" height="300" /></a> Some of these women made their lovers’ suicide respectable, before they retired to the seclusion of their convent to pray for the salvation of their soul, where some of them were suspected of trying to seduce God!… Through these enchantresses come to life a choice array of foreign suitors, lovers, admirers, patrons and sometimes husbands: Lord Carnaervon, the Earl of Asquith, Lord Thomson of Cardington, Satcheverell Sittwell, Noel Coward, David Farrar, Paul Morand, Marcel Proust, Pierre Lotti, Anatole France, Puvis de Chavannes, Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Twain, Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Eric Satie and more recently Humphrey Bogart, Lord Lloyd Webber, Roberto Alagna, Michel Foucault or Jacques Lacan, to name just a few.</p>
<p><em>Princess Georges Ghika, aka Liane de Pougy</em></p>
<p>But looking at this rich social tapestry, this folk embroidery of multicoloured and infinite stitches, one is equally absorbed by the darker side of the 20th century history <a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/117-elisabeta-rizea-01.tif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132" title="117-elisabeta-rizea-01" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/117-elisabeta-rizea-01.tif" alt="117-elisabeta-rizea-01" /></a> of women who died in prison for their political beliefs, of Passionarias       who, after the Second World War, took the armed struggle to the Carpathian mountains, women of the maquis, or simply the faceless yet equally important unknown illustrious peasant women, or middle class housewives who steeled their obstinate resolve and silent resistance against the levelling steamroller of dictatorship.  <a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smarandabraescu14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-158" title="smarandabraescu14" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smarandabraescu14-228x300.jpg" alt="smarandabraescu14" width="184" height="241" /></a></p>
<p>Constantin ROMAN evokes these heroines with a melancholy acknowledgment of the brutal destruction of a society and culture. This Romanian society was alive and well and it was so aptly described before WWII by Paul Morand and Marcel Proust, by Marie of Edinburgh and Patrick Leigh Fermor, by Satcheverell Sittwell, Elizabeth and Margot Asquith, by Vineretta Singer de Polignac and Violet Trefussis, Olivia Manning, Panait Istrati or Gregor von Rezzori, Colette or Virginia Ocampo, by the Princess Hélène Chrissoveloni Soutso, Princess Marthe Bibesco,     or Countess Anna de Noailles.<br />
This was the ‘faraway country’ which inspired Dorothy Parker’s classic verse:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,<br />
A medley of extemporanea;<br />
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;<br />
And I am Marie of Romania.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/queenmarieofromania2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-146" title="queenmarieofromania2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/queenmarieofromania2.jpg" alt="queenmarieofromania2" width="231" height="284" /></a>For some of these women also represent the extravagant if exotic Romanian society evoked in the correspondence of Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Don Pedro of Portugal or Ramsey MacDonald, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. In the process we also admire portraits left to posterity by artists of   world repute such as Rodin, Zuloaga, Whistler, Singer Sargent, de Laszlo, Vuillard, Paul César Helleu, Edmond Lapeyre, Puvis de Chavannes. Many other portraits are also immortalised by the London society photographers Walter Barnett, Van Dyke, Lafayette or Russell Westwood, or brought to life by film directors such as Federico Fellini of ‘La Dolce Vita’ fame, or more recently by opera stage directors such as Francesca Zamballo, David Pountney and even and quite oddly by a young student of Edinburgh University by the name of Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s future Prime Minister…</p>
<div id="attachment_159" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 225px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/elizabeth_asquith_augustusjohn_1919.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-159" title="elizabeth_asquith_augustusjohn_1919" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/elizabeth_asquith_augustusjohn_1919-215x300.jpg" alt="Princess Antoine Bibescu by Augustus John (1919)" width="215" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Princess Antoine Bibescu by Augustus John (1919)</p></div>
<p>There is never a dull moment in this gallery of royals and aristocrats but also of ordinary but exuberant women of talent, who fascinated the British society to the point of venting<br />
its wit in the now classic limerick about King Carol II’s mistress, a diabolically seductive and unrepentant divorcee, who kept the English gossip columnists busy for many long years:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Have you heard of Madame Lupescu<br />
Who came to Romania’s rescue?<br />
It’s a wonderful thing<br />
To be under a King:<br />
Is democracy better I ask you?</em></p></blockquote>
<p>At the other end of this social spectrum we discover women inspired by loftier ideals: enrolling as fighter pilots during WWII, or breaking world records at parachute jumping, pioneer solo pilots across the Mediterranean, or international sports champions, opera divas, suffragettes shaking the Parisian bastions of male power in the legal profession, in architecture or international diplomacy… women with guts who inspired so many.</p>
<p>These colourful strong-headed and often beautiful ladies, whether of the exile or home-grown variety had all, without exception, an amazing story to tell and often a memorable quote to impart. For <em>Blouse Roumaine</em> is not only a celebration, it is also a memorial to the past, as the stories unfold before our eyes not just as pickings for the literary gourmet and delicacies for the academic palate, but also as an Orthodox liturgy, a Romanian Epiphany which brings alive in our mind a nearly-forgotten but fascinating history with unexpected DNA links to the Western European psyche.</p>
<p>The lyrical, witty, and often satirical and uncompromisingly critical narrative of the ‘Blouse Roumaine’ may appear to some readers if not controversial at least thought-provoking, as it offers forays into some of the recesses of time prior to WWII, reflecting a somewhat politically schizophrenic world of contrasts. To complement this period the reader is offered also a close look into the emotional times of modern communist Nemesis. This is the darker world of the vengeful and remorseless Ana Pauker, Elena Ceausescu and their fawning Court poets which explains the legacy of their system in the post-modern Romania.<br />
The synthesis of such bipolar images conjured in the <em>Blouse Roumaine</em> remains a memorable witness to:</p>
<p>‘the joy and pain and privilege of a writer to save the memories and thereby the physical beauty of past glories, a task which he sets about to carry out supremely well and with an immense joie de vivre’.</p>
<p>. – o O o &#8211; .</p>
<p><strong>‘Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women’</strong> preceded by a historical, social and cultural overview contains 1,100 pages, 160 critical biographies, 600 quotations, six indexes and 4,000 selected credits and references.</p>
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<p><strong>Constantin ROMAN </strong>was a Scholar of Peterhouse, the oldest Cambridge College, founded in 1284. He took his PhD in Geophysics at a time evoked in his Memoir published by the Institute of Physics Publishers (Bristol and Philadelphia, http://www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift/</p>
<p>ROMAN is a Professor Honoris Causa and a Commander of the Order of Merit. He lives in London, where he is a Member of the Society of Authors, an independent consultant and a contributor to British media.</p>
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Blouse Roumaine - The Unsung Voices of Romanian Women (Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009) http://www.blouseroumaine.com/freeexcerpt_download.html
    Blouse Roumaine - The Unsung Voices of Romanian Women (Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009) http://www.blouseroumaine.com/freeexcerpt_download.html

Inspirée de la toile homonyme de Henri Matisse, oeuvre exposée au Musée d’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou à Paris, "La Blouse Roumaine" est une anthologie des Femmes de Roumanie, présentant des personnalités incontournables de la culture universelle. Cet ouvrage contient une majorité des femmes francophones - des femmes qui se sont exprimées a un moment ou un autre dans cette langue, ont écrit ou écrivent en Français, ont vécu en France ou bien y vivent actuellement, contribuant à la culture française comme professeurs, écrivains, peintres, sculpteurs, psychologues, philosophes, médecins, analystes politiques, poètes, actrices de cinéma ou de théâtre (sociétaires de la Comédie française), des femmes qui ont tenu des salons littéraires à Paris, les égéries qui ont inspiré les artistes Rodin, Brancusi, Renoir, Vuillard, Matisse, Fantin Latour, les compositeurs Chausson, Poulenc, Gounod, Fauré ou Saint Saens et Ysaÿe, des écrivains comme Proust, Colette, Cocteau, Morand ou Anatole France et Sacha Guitry, des cinéastes comme Jean Renoir, Marc Allegret, Christian Jacques, Jean Boyer, ou Pierre Colombier et Claude Autant-Lara, des pianistes et violonistes, des chanteuses d'opéra, des ballerines, enfin, des françaises qui ont épousé des Roumains ou la cause de la Roumanie et qui ont eu par la suite une contribution à l'histoire culturelle et politique de ce pays, des conseillères politiques, ou des Roumaines naturalisées françaises ou des Françaises d'origine Roumaine.

Le fait qu’une partie du public français ne connaisse pas ou ne saurait concevoir l'apport de la Roumanie au rayonnement de la France n’est point étonnant si l'on pense que la seule femme écrivain dont l'appartement soit minutieusement reconstitué et conservé au Musée Carnavalet de l'histoire de la ville de Paris, Anna de Noailles, poétesse Parnassienne soit présentée comme étant d’origine "Grecque", alors qu'elle est née - Princesse de Bassaraba-Brancovan, issue d’une famille historique Roumaine. Malheureusement, ce genre de malentendu est emblématique en France.

Countess Anna de Noailles, nee Pss Bassaraba-Brancovan (by Ignacio Zuloaga)
    Countess Anna de Noailles, nee Pss Bassaraba-Brancovan (by Ignacio Zuloaga)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Le rayonnement de la culture Roumaine en France</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">(Plaidoyer pour la traduction en Français de l’Anthologie “Blouse Roumaine” par Constantin ROMAN – Juin 2006)</span></p>
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<p>Inspirée de la toile homonyme de Henri Matisse, oeuvre exposée au Musée d’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou à Paris, &#8220;La Blouse Roumaine&#8221;  est  une anthologie des Femmes de Roumanie, présentant des personnalités incontournables de la culture universelle. Cet ouvrage contient une majorité des femmes francophones &#8211;  des femmes qui se sont exprimées a un moment ou un autre dans cette langue, ont écrit ou écrivent en Français, ont vécu en France ou bien y  vivent actuellement, contribuant à la culture française comme professeurs, écrivains, peintres, sculpteurs, psychologues, philosophes,  médecins, analystes politiques, poètes, actrices de cinéma ou de théâtre (sociétaires de la Comédie française), des femmes qui ont tenu des salons littéraires à Paris, les égéries qui ont inspiré les artistes Rodin, Brancusi, Renoir, Vuillard, Matisse, Fantin Latour, les compositeurs Chausson, Poulenc, Gounod, Fauré ou Saint Saens et Ysaÿe, des écrivains comme Proust, Colette, Cocteau, Morand ou Anatole France et Sacha Guitry, des cinéastes comme Jean Renoir, Marc Allegret, Christian Jacques, Jean Boyer, ou Pierre Colombier et Claude Autant-Lara, des pianistes et violonistes, des chanteuses d&#8217;opéra, des ballerines, enfin, des françaises qui ont épousé des Roumains ou la cause de la Roumanie et qui ont eu par la suite une contribution à l&#8217;histoire culturelle et politique de ce pays, des conseillères politiques, ou des Roumaines naturalisées françaises ou des Françaises d&#8217;origine Roumaine.</p>
<p>Le fait qu’une partie du public français  ne connaisse pas ou ne saurait concevoir l&#8217;apport de la Roumanie au rayonnement de la France  n’est point étonnant si l&#8217;on pense que la seule femme écrivain dont l&#8217;appartement soit minutieusement reconstitué et conservé au Musée Carnavalet de l&#8217;histoire de la ville de Paris, Anna de Noailles, poétesse Parnassienne soit présentée comme étant d’origine &#8220;Grecque&#8221;, alors qu&#8217;elle est née  &#8211;  Princesse de Bassaraba-Brancovan, issue d’une famille historique Roumaine. Malheureusement, ce genre de malentendu est emblématique en France.</p>
<div id="attachment_373" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/countessanadenoailles2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-373" title="countessanadenoailles2" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/countessanadenoailles2-300x216.jpg" alt="Countess Anna de Noailles, nee Pss Bassaraba-Brancovan (by Ignacio Zuloaga)" width="300" height="216" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Countess Anna de Noailles, nee Pss Bassaraba-Brancovan (by Ignacio Zuloaga)</p></div>
<p>De surcroît, Anna de Noailles a été aussi la première femme décorée de la Légion d’Honneur. Ses obsèques à l’église de la Madeleine à Paris, en 1933, ont reçu des honneurs dont l’ampleur  et la participation ont été proches de funérailles nationales.</p>
<p>Le prix littéraire Femina- Vacaresco “destiné à récompenser un ouvrage de valeur autre qu’un roman” est décerné tous les ans, depuis plus d’un demi siècle. Sa fondatrice est une roumaine d’expression française, femme de lettres, diplomate aux Nations Unies, Officier de l’Académie Française, Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur. Elle était, entre autres, une proche de Clémenceau et une intime de Pierre Loti, Georges Duhamel, André Maurois et Aristide Briand.</p>
<p>Au Panthéon, les fresques de l&#8217;histoire de France peintes par Puvis de Chavannes représentant Sainte Geneviève, patronne de Paris, ont eu comme modèle l’épouse du peintre, Marie Cantacuzène, Princesse Moldave.  Celon certains critiques d’art, cette femme aurait eu une influence primordiale, sur la  peinture Française du 19e siècle, marquant  ainsi un tournant dans la pose des modèles de peintre, donc dans la typologie, la manière et le style de la peinture, durant tout une époque, du passage du Romantisme classique de Delacroix à l&#8217;Impressionisme de la fin du 19e siecle.  En 2003,  le Musée du Petit-Palais a, pour sa part, fait préempter pour la somme de 29.000 € une esquisse préparatoire au décor réalisé par Puvis au Panthéon en 1874-1878, représentant l&#8217;Enfance de sainte Geneviève : c’était indirectement un hommage posthume, à Marie Cantacuzène épouse de Chavannes qui figure dans la “Blouse Roumaine”.</p>
<p>La première femme jamais admise aux cours de Droit à la Sorbonne, en 1884 a été Sarmiza Bilcescu, une Roumaine (contrairement a ce que l&#8217;on a évoqué par  méconnaissance ou bien par vanité nationale). Elle soutient sa thèse de doctorat en Droit en 1890, deux ans avant sa collègue française Jeanne Chauvin. Sa thèse  en Droit a comme sujet De la condition légale de la mère. Pendant toutes ses études à la Sorbonne, Mlle Bilcescu a été chaperonnée jusque dans l’amphithéâtre,  d&#8217;un coté  par son mari et de l&#8217;autre par sa mère &#8211; une aristocrate Roumaine: &#8220;Comment, Messieurs  s&#8217;est-elle  adressée aux professeurs de la Sorbonne – vous écrivez « Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” même a l’entrée des prisons en France alors que vous interdisez a ma fille de suivre les cours de Droit a la Sorbonne du simple fait qu&#8217;elle soit une femme?&#8221; Les hommes l&#8217;ont écouté, ont fléchi, ont réfléchi et ont fini par admettre cette formidable Roumaine, dont la présence parmi  les mâles a failli provoquer une émeute: c’était le début d’une révolution qui a marqué un record européen : celui  de la première femme avocate.</p>
<div id="attachment_375" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/bellio_renoir_145_pt.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-375" title="bellio_renoir_145_pt" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/bellio_renoir_145_pt.jpg" alt="Victorine de Bellio daughter of romanian Impressionist Collector Dr georges de Bellio (by Renoir)" width="150" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Victorine de Bellio daughter of romanian Impressionist Collector Dr georges de Bellio (by Renoir)</p></div>
<p>L&#8217;Impressionisme Français n&#8217;aurait pas été ce qu&#8217;il représente aujourd&#8217;hui (et les Musées Marmottan, d’Orsay, Giverny  non plus) sans le mécénat, l&#8217;amitié, la clairvoyance et l&#8217;initiative du docteur Roumain Georges de Bellio, ami de Monet, Pissaro, Renoir, Cezanne, Manet, Sisley&#8230; Le terme même &#8220;Impressionisme&#8221; provient d&#8217;une toile que de Bellio avait achetée à Monet: ..&#8221;Impressions Soleil levant&#8221; (donation au Musée Marmottan). Aussi le mysterieux nu &#8220;Olympia&#8221;, peint par Edouard Manet, qui a scandalisé le public su Salon parisien aurait  failli être perdu si de Bellio ne l&#8217;avait pas acheté, &#8220;pour la nation&#8221; (la nation française, bien entendu), en 1864, ayant initité une souscription publique</p>
<p>Marie-France Ionesco, fille de l&#8217;Académicien a contribué énormément à la promotion de l&#8217;oeuvre dramatique de son père &#8211; le théâtre de l&#8217;Absurde &#8211; elle figure dans la &#8220;Blouse&#8221;, tout  aussi comme la fille du docteur de Bellio &#8211; Madame Donop de Monchy qui a fait don de son inestimable collection de peintures (léguée de son père)  au Musée Marmottan et qui a encouragé aussi  le fils Monet d&#8217;en faire autant avec la donation de Giverny.</p>
<p>Mais, au delà des noms qui portaient  jadis en France une vraie résonance  il y a bien des Roumains contemporains dont les cours sont suivis dans les Grandes Ecoles de France, dont les ouvrages se vendent dans les librairies  et dont les manuscrits sont conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale ….plus encore des femmes Roumaines dont les  oeuvres se trouvent dans les expositions et les musées d’art et dont  la présence est remarquée dans les salles de concert ou sur les scènes de théâtre ou d&#8217;opéra.</p>
<p>Si, toutefois, dans l’esprit public on ne saurait pas faire la distinction d’un nom étranger de souche Roumaine, Grecque, Russe ou autre, la raison de cette confusion serait bien comprise et la &#8220;Blouse Roumaine&#8221; serait en mesure de régler ce fâcheux malentendu.</p>
<p>Mais, au delà de pareilles considérations, la &#8220;Blouse Roumaine&#8221;  parle aussi de grands hommes, peintres français, poètes, compositeurs ou écrivains, des époux, des amis ou des amours de ces mêmes femmes, d&#8217;hommes politiques, ou des personnages mondains de la Belle Epoque ou du Tout Paris., tous liés à la Roumanie. &#8220;Madame&#8221;, c&#8217;est adressé le Général de Gaulle à la Princesse Marthe Bibesco,  &#8220;pour moi, vous personifiez l&#8217;Europe!&#8221;.</p>
<p>L’ auteur  de l’anthologie est persuadé que le public français se laisserait séduire par cette démarche francophile et francophone. Car cette tentative de dialogue culturel transfrontalier reste un acte de foi, d’une vocation encore plus Francophone que la francophonie des Français. C’est ainsi que la Blouse se transformerait en une bannière, en un cri de joie, un cri d&#8217;espoir, mais aussi un cri de guerre et un défi adressé au lecteur français&#8230; puisque dans ce  même dialogue entamé, l’auteur parle la même langue, raisonne aux mêmes valeurs spirituelles &#8211; dans l’espace d’un Univers de plus en plus transparent et accessible.</p>
<p>Bien que la &#8220;Blouse Roumaine&#8221; garde au centre  de son plaidoyer  la France et la culture française. au delà des confins de ces frontières nationales, la &#8220;Blouse&#8221;  dévoile aussi une dimension européenne. Dans ce cadre, les  cultures italienne, allemande ou  anglaise  gardent une place dans ce dialogue des nations à travers une trame qui développe des complicités universelles&#8230;</p>
<p>Pour cette raison fortuite invoquée par son aveu intime, l’auteur, Roumain francophone d’expression anglaise, prend l&#8217;Eurostar (et son parapluie britannique) afin de convaincre sinon de séduire le lecteur français de la justesse et de la valeur de cette démarche.  Dans ce but peut être aucune autre citation ne saurait mieux exprimer la philosophie de la “Blouse Roumaine” que la voix de la fondatrice du prix Femina- Vacarescu, dans son discours présenté aux Nations Unies, il y a 80 ans, le 27 Avril 1925:</p>
<div id="attachment_376" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 76px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/vacaresco.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-376" title="vacaresco" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/vacaresco.jpg" alt="Helene Vacaresco, Foundder of the Literary Prize- Vacaresco-Femina" width="66" height="93" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Helene Vacaresco, Foundder of the Literary Prize- Vacaresco-Femina</p></div>
<p>“ Ma voix vient d’un pays lointain et si elle parait faible c’est parce que c’est la voix d’une femme qui tremble d’une émotion imposée autant par votre présence que par l’honneur de se faire entendre. Ma voix vient d’un pays lointain  et en dépit de cela, quand vous l’auriez entendue, j’espère qu’elle résonnera dans vos coeurs. Ma voix vient du sein d’une nation qui a toujours aimé et admiré la France et comme la France et souvent à travers elle, elle a rêvé de la Liberté, elle s’est promis d’accomplir une destinée splendide, en dépit de l’humeur changeante de sa fortune. Vous auriez reconnu dans ces qualités la Roumanie, terre de souffrance, de rayonnement et de bravoure, placée sur le promontoire de l’Europe contre les afflictions des hordes asiatiques, et qui, comme un phare,  a été sensible a défendre la civilisation qui lui a donné son peuple et ses lois.”</p>
<p>Constantin ROMAN<br />
Docteur es Sciences de l’Université de Cambridge (1974)<br />
Professeur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Bucarest (1998)<br />
Commandeur de l’Ordre du Mérite (Culture et Démocratie, 2000)<br />
Ancien Conseiller Personnel du Président de Roumanie (1996-2000)<br />
Editeur,  “Centre for Romanian Studies”, London<br />
Membre de la “Society of Authors” (GB)</p>
<p>Londres<br />
Grande Bretagne<br />
E: editor@romanianstudies.org</p>
<p><a title="Anthology of Romanian Women" href="http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html</a></p>
<p>Fiche technique du texte en Anglais:</p>
<p>Note: De par sa structure et composition arrangé en ordre alphabétique des noms des 156 femmes, le texte serait susceptible d’être comprimé en renonçant à un pourcentage de fiches biographiques et de citations, sans pour autant changer la philosophie de l’anthologie. Les illustrations seraient optionnelles sauf pour un nombre restreint de la Préface du texte (environ 12 illustrations)</p>
<p>La Note Introductive est signée par Catherine DURANDIN (Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris)</p>
<p>Nombre de pages: 1,100<br />
Nombre d’Illustration: optionnel (a débattre)<br />
Nombre de fiches biographiques: 160 femmes<br />
Nombre de citations: 600<br />
Nombre d’Indexes: 6<br />
Nombre de références Bibliographiques: env. 3.000</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[SMARANDA BRAESCU s-a nascut intr-o familie de tarani moldoveni din judetul Barlad. A fost parasutista, pilot, campioana europeana la parasutism (1931) si mondiala (in 1932, cu recordul de 7.200m la Sacramento, SUA). Pentru acest record Braescu a fost investita cu Crucea de aur "Virtutea Aeronautica". In 1932 a stabilit primul record de traversare a Marii Mediterane in 6 ore 10 minute, strabatand distanta de 1100 Km, intre Roma si Tripoli, in propriul sau avion de tip Milles Hawk. Desi in Statele Unite i s-au oferit contracte lucrative Braescu a preferat sa se intoarca in Romania refuzand sa exploateze gloria de campioana in scopuri comerciale.
In timpul raboiului a fost activa ca pilot in celebra "Escadrila Alba" pe frontul de Rasarit si apoi pe frontul de Vest in Transilvania, Ungaria si Cehoslovacia.

Smaranda Braescu - Romanian Pioneer Pilot &#038; Parachutist
    Smaranda Braescu - Romanian Pioneer Pilot &#038; Parachutist

Protestul transmis de Braescu Natiunilor Unite si Comandamentului Aliat din Romania demascand alegerile masluite din 1946 i-au atras urmarirea de catre politia politica a regimului Petru Groza. In continuare Braescu a activat in rezistenta anti-comunista, dar in 1948 a fost internata grav bolnava de cancer intr-un spital din Cluj. Aici a decedat in urma interventiei chirurgicale si a fost ingropata sub numele conspirativ de Maria Popescu. Totusi, la putin timp Securitatea a interogat si arestat toate persoanele implicate inclusiv medicii care au ingrijit-o la spital.

Dar ura administratiei comuniste a urmarit-o pe eroina noastra pana si in locul ei de veci, "unde nu este nici durere nici suspin" asa cum ne asigura ortodoxia noastra. In anul 1970 mormantul Smarandei Braescu, ingropata sub numele conspirativ de Maria Popescu a fost vandut unei alte familii si ori si ce urma a existentei acestei femei-erou din cimitirul central sin Cluj a disparut. Prin acest act s-a consfiintit conspiratia tacerii impuse de regimul comunist.

Dupa caderea regimului totalitar memoria eroului pilot Smaranda Braescu a fost reabiltata si mai multe strazi din Romania ii poarta numele, iar prin decretul prezidential din 1996, batalionul de parasutisti 498 a primit "drapelul de lupta Smaranda Braescu": prea putin, prea tarziu!

"SMARANDA"

Smaranda, unde esti?
Te-ai avantat in zboruri printre nori
Din ceruri coborat-ai ca un fulg
Peste Ocean, cantata indelung
Urale ti-au adus de-atatea ori.

N-ai vrut onoruri si nici bani mai multi
Cinstit-ai vrut sa stai printre Romani
Si te-ai intors atunci la noi in munti…
Cu “Escadrila Alba” ai rapus
Dusmani din Rasarit si din Apus.

In ’46 cand s-au masluit
Alegerile suflul ti-au taiat
Ca bunii tai cu jalba in protap
Mai-marilor de-atuncea te-ai jelit
Dar soarta ta fugar-ai fost sa fii.

Din talcul vietii tale ti-a fost dat
Sa nu renunti la lupta nici de cum
Cu fruntea-n sus sa mergi pe-acelasi drum
Cand boala floarea vietii ti-a curmat
Si-n groapa zaci sub nume de-mprumut.

N-au fost nici popi, nici rude, nici parinti
O candela sa-ti puna pe mormant
Nici vesnici pomeniri, pomeni sau sfinti
Nu s-au aflat s-aline trupul tau
De cine-ai fost sa sufle vre-un cuvant.

Dar pilda ta n-a fost intr-un zadar
Acum ca roata vietii s-a rotit
Si patru zeci de ani trecut-au, chiar
O strada cu-al tau nume in sfarsit
Te va slavi atata cum mai stim.

Constantin ROMAN
Londra, Mai, 2006

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Read more about  Smaranda Braescu in:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">NOTA BIOGRAFICA</span><br />
Fragment din:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em><strong>Blouse Roumaine &#8211; The Unsung Voices of Romanian Women</strong></em></span></p>
<p>(Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009)</p>
<p>(1,100 pages, 160 Biographies, 600 quotations)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html</a></p>
<div id="attachment_342" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/smaranda_braescu.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-342" title="smaranda_braescu" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/smaranda_braescu.jpg" alt="Smaranda Braescu Romanian Pioneer Pilot and Parachutist" width="150" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Smaranda Braescu Romanian Pioneer Pilot and Parachutist</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">SMARANDA BRAESCU</span> s-a nascut intr-o familie de tarani moldoveni din judetul Barlad. A fost parasutista, pilot, campioana europeana la parasutism (1931) si mondiala (in 1932, cu recordul de 7.200m la Sacramento, SUA). Pentru acest record Braescu a fost investita cu Crucea de aur &#8220;Virtutea Aeronautica&#8221;. In 1932 a stabilit primul record de traversare a Marii Mediterane in 6 ore 10 minute, strabatand distanta de 1100 Km, intre Roma si Tripoli, in propriul sau avion de tip Milles Hawk. Desi in Statele Unite i s-au oferit contracte lucrative  Braescu a preferat sa se intoarca in Romania refuzand sa exploateze gloria de campioana in scopuri comerciale.<br />
In timpul raboiului  a fost activa ca pilot in celebra &#8220;Escadrila Alba&#8221; pe frontul de Rasarit si apoi pe frontul de Vest in Transilvania, Ungaria si Cehoslovacia.</p>
<div id="attachment_343" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/smarandabraescu14.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-343" title="smarandabraescu14" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/smarandabraescu14-228x300.jpg" alt="Smaranda Braescu - Romanian Pioneer Pilot &amp; Parachutist" width="228" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Smaranda Braescu - Romanian Pioneer Pilot &amp; Parachutist</p></div>
<p>Protestul transmis de Braescu Natiunilor Unite si Comandamentului Aliat din Romania demascand alegerile masluite din 1946 i-au atras urmarirea de catre politia politica a regimului Petru Groza.   In continuare Braescu a  activat in rezistenta anti-comunista, dar in 1948 a fost internata grav bolnava de  cancer intr-un spital din Cluj. Aici a decedat in urma interventiei chirurgicale  si a fost ingropata sub numele conspirativ de Maria Popescu. Totusi, la putin timp Securitatea a interogat si arestat toate persoanele implicate inclusiv medicii care au ingrijit-o la spital.</p>
<p>Dar ura administratiei comuniste a urmarit-o pe eroina noastra pana si in locul ei de veci, &#8220;unde nu este nici durere nici suspin&#8221; asa cum ne asigura ortodoxia noastra. In anul 1970 mormantul Smarandei Braescu, ingropata sub numele conspirativ de Maria Popescu a fost vandut unei alte familii si ori si ce urma a existentei acestei femei-erou din cimitirul central sin Cluj a disparut. Prin acest act s-a consfiintit conspiratia tacerii impuse de regimul comunist.</p>
<p>Dupa caderea regimului totalitar memoria eroului pilot Smaranda Braescu a fost reabiltata si mai multe strazi din Romania ii poarta numele, iar prin decretul prezidential din 1996, batalionul de parasutisti 498 a primit &#8220;drapelul de lupta Smaranda Braescu&#8221;: prea putin, prea tarziu!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">&#8220;SMARANDA&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Smaranda, unde esti?<br />
Te-ai avantat in zboruri printre nori<br />
Din ceruri coborat-ai ca un fulg<br />
Peste Ocean, cantata indelung<br />
Urale ti-au adus de-atatea ori.</p>
<p>N-ai vrut onoruri si nici bani mai multi<br />
Cinstit-ai vrut sa stai printre Romani<br />
Si te-ai intors atunci la noi in munti…<br />
Cu “Escadrila Alba” ai rapus<br />
Dusmani din Rasarit si din Apus.</p>
<p>In ’46 cand s-au masluit<br />
Alegerile suflul ti-au taiat<br />
Ca bunii tai cu jalba in protap<br />
Mai-marilor de-atuncea te-ai jelit<br />
Dar soarta ta fugar-ai fost sa fii.</p>
<p>Din talcul vietii tale ti-a fost dat<br />
Sa nu renunti la lupta nici de cum<br />
Cu fruntea-n sus sa mergi pe-acelasi drum<br />
Cand boala floarea vietii ti-a curmat<br />
Si-n groapa zaci sub nume de-mprumut.</p>
<p>N-au fost nici popi, nici rude, nici parinti<br />
O candela sa-ti  puna pe mormant<br />
Nici vesnici pomeniri, pomeni sau sfinti<br />
Nu s-au aflat s-aline trupul tau<br />
De cine-ai fost sa sufle vre-un cuvant.</p>
<p>Dar pilda ta n-a fost intr-un zadar<br />
Acum ca roata vietii s-a rotit<br />
Si patru zeci de ani trecut-au, chiar<br />
O strada cu-al tau nume in sfarsit<br />
Te va slavi atata cum mai stim.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Constantin ROMAN<br />
Londra, Mai, 2006</span></p>
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<p>Read more about  <strong>Smaranda Braescu </strong>in:</p>
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<p>(Centre for Romanian Studies, London, 2009)</p>
<p>(1,100 pages, 160 Biographies, 600 quotations)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONFLUENTE CULTURALE ANGLO-ROMANE (I) – ROMANCELE LA LONDRA Cand trecea pe la Londra, Hotelul Savoy din Mayfair, era uneori resedinta Martei Bibescu, care consemna in jurnalul ei: &#8220;Regele mi-a intrerupt visarea cu un mesaj de bun-venit &#8211; dar refuz sa fiu deranjata&#8221;. Personajul acesta era George al V-lea, varul reginei Maria&#8230;Ei, cu o sotie atat [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">CONFLUENTE CULTURALE ANGLO-ROMANE (I) –<br />
ROMANCELE LA LONDRA</span></p>
<p>Cand trecea pe la Londra, Hotelul Savoy din Mayfair, era uneori resedinta Martei Bibescu, care consemna in jurnalul ei:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Regele mi-a intrerupt visarea cu un mesaj de bun-venit &#8211; dar refuz sa fiu deranjata&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Personajul acesta era George al V-lea, varul reginei Maria&#8230;Ei, cu o sotie atat de glaciala cum era Queen Mary of Teck, nici nu era de mirare ca monarhul  isi cauta destinderea in alte directii. Queen Mary era o nepoata a contesei Claudia de Rhedey, nascuta in Ardealul nostru, la Sangeorgiu de Padure. In 1835 la Viena Claudia s-a casatorit cu printul Alexandru de Wurtenberg, iar zece ani mai tarziu a murit intr-un celebru accident de trasura. Claudia, la randul ei se tragea din Vlad Tepes: oare aceasta sa fi fost filiera prin care genele acestei Queen Mary, regina a Angliei sa fi aparut atat de &#8220;intepata&#8221;? Consoarta lui George V nu suradea nici odata, ceea ce nu putem spune despre distinsa si fermecatoarea Marta Bibescu, care in plus avea o conversatie si mai ales o prezenta captivanta.</p>
<div id="attachment_348" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/bibesco.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-348" title="bibesco" src="http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/bibesco.jpg" alt="Princess Marthe Bibesco, Romanian Socialite, Francophone Writer and Enchantress" width="150" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Princess Marthe Bibesco, Romanian Socialite, Francophone Writer and Enchantress</p></div>
<p>Dar nu numai atat &#8211; pretendentii aristocrati isi faceau concurenta la atentia acestei “printese orientale”, care ii fermeca in asa fel incat ii transforma pe toti barbatii intr-un fel de aluat, intr-o masa de plastilina pe care o modela in voia si dupa capriciile ei. Dar sa nu il uitam pe regele Alfonso XIII care o vizita pe Marta  la hotelul Savoy sub pseudonimul unui obscur duce spaniol:</p>
<p>&#8220;Nu o sa-i uit sarutul lui niciodata &#8211; atat de fraged, atat de cast&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>In timpul celui de al doilea razboi, hotelurile de lux din Londra devenisera locuri de cazare temporara pentru aristocratii englezi care isi pierdusera casele in timpul “Blitzului” german: rachetele V-1 si V-2 faceau prapad si doar eforturile pilotilor polonezi refugiati in Anglia dupa 1939, cat si ale pompierilor londonezi au facut ca celebra catedrala St Paul, cladirea iconica a lui Christopher Wren, sa nu dispara complet sub flacarile bombelor incendiare.</p>
<p>La Ritz, in timpul razboiului, venea si o alta celebra mondena &#8211; Violet Trefusis, a carei mama, Doamna Keppel, fusese metresa oficiala a regelui Edward VII. Violet o vizitase pe Marta la Mogosoaia si a lasat posteritatii niste pagini cu o imagine idilica despre decorul palatului, despre lacul incarcat cu nuferi si vizitat de zane si mai ales despre printesa locului:</p>
<blockquote><p>“ Asemenea Ondinei,  nimfa  apelor, palatul rasarea dintr-un covor de irisi si de nuferi. Un arhitect venetian din secolul 17 l-a construit in stil Lombard. Ca si palatul unui doge, avea acea culoare pala a unei flori de gardenia usor arsa de razele soarelui, sau poate aceea a unei manusi de copil care s-a jucat toata ziua cu mingea: cladirea arata putin vetusta si in acelasi timp imbracata in haine de sarbatoare. Interiorul era decorat cu mozaicuri aurite, cu grile din fier forrjat, piei de leopard, jilturi si divane…. Afara un paun se infoia pe scarile de marmura.” (Violet Trefusis, ‘Prélude to Misadventure’)</p></blockquote>
<p>Trefusis  pomenea de societatea engleza refugiata la Ritz, unde a intalnit si o alta printesa de a noastra, pe Anne-Marie Callimachi, nascuta Vacarescu, vara celebrei scriitoare si diplomate Elena Vacarescu, de la Paris:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Acestor saloane (de la hotelul Ritz, ale Dnei Keppel, mama lui Violet Trefusis) printesa Callimachi le aducea acea atmosfera de “Orient Express”, care  ii lipsea atat de mult” Violetei Trefussis.(Philippe Jullian and John Philips, Violet Trefusis Life and Letters, pp. 106)</p></blockquote>
<p>Inainte de razboi, Anne-Marie fusese atasata de presa a legatiei noastre din Londra.  Asa da! pe atunci legaturile se faceau la nivelul cel mai inalt, iar Romania era pe harta Europei pentru alte motive decat evocarile sordide de azi – ce diferenta astronomica fata de diplomatii academiei &#8220;Stefan Gheorghiu&#8221;, ce aveau sa isi afiseze ne-stiinta timp de peste cinci decenii, prin capitalele lumii, iar pe unii dintre ei si descendentii lor, ii mai gasim si acum.</p>
<p>Despre anturajul familiei Callimachi ne vorbeste si un alt scriitor englez, Sacheverell Sitwell, (1897-1988), invitat de Carol II in Romania ca sa scrie o carte cu impresii de voiaj: aici apare conacul Mànesti in toata gloria atmosferica dinainte de razboi.</p>
<blockquote><p>“… porti larg deschise spre un drum de pietris ce ducea la Mànesti. Un taraf de lautari canta in onoarea noastra. Pe margini erau brazdele de canna indica galbene si rosii, inainte ca sa apara conacul. Mànesti este casa primitoare unde ne-a invitat Printesa Callimachi: fusese ridicata pe mosia familiei, cam cu cincizeci sau saizeci de ani in urma de catre bunicul ei. De fapt casa reprezinta in sine un exemplu al vremurilor de atunci si unul care nu se poate lesne schimba.  Un pridvor oriental decorat cu un foisor din lemn sculptat te intampina inainte de a patrunde intr-un interior mobilat chiar de furnizorul curtii lui Napoleon III, pastrand asa cum arata sigiliul imperial sub multe din fotolii si canapele. Interiorul casei  este in mare parte mobilat in stilul ‘Second Empire’ dar parcul conacului este mult  mai vechi: are un elesteu. pe malul caruia sunt  salcii batrane printre care se zaresc  chioscuri in stil clasic. Totul evoca paginile unor romane de Turgheniev, petrecandu-se in vre-un conac sau chateau unde doamnele il citeau pe Byron sau tocmai il descopereau pe Chopin. Intr-un fel, parca si casa avea un aer putin rusesc amintind de Riviera Crimeii de la Ialta si Alupka,  sau de castelul gotic din Blore al printului Vorontov. Ce ramanea intr-adevar reprezentativ Romanesc era insa masa de pranz, gustoasa si bogata in urma careia de abea tarziu dupa amiaza automobilele si-au reluat drumul.”  (Sitwell, Sacheverell, &#8220;Roumanian Journey&#8221;, pp. 33)</p></blockquote>
<p>In mod curios putem beneficia nu numai de impresiile scriitorului rafinat care era Sitwell, dar chiar si de jurnalul de voiaj tinut de Gertrude Stevenson, bona care o acompania pe Doamna Sitwell in Romania. Scotianca asta simpla, dar cu pretentii literare mulate chiar dupa profilul lui Sitwell – a publicat o carte din care putem beneficia de un unghi de observatie diferit de cel al stapanilor ei: de aici descoperim obiceiurile nu numai de la masa boierilor romani si cele de la bucataria servitorilor tigani de la Mànesti, care mancau icre negre… Scotiencei asa ceva nu ii placea – evident acest rafinament nu patrunsese in toate colturile Insulelor Britanice.</p>
<p>Nici nu merita sa mai ne intrebam, caci ar fi mult prea previzibil si prea trist, ce s-o fi intamplat cu parcul si conacul de la Mànesti, ce fel de staul de vite o fi devenit sub auspiciile ilustrei republici populare? Faptul ca am mai avea un reper de referinta la “ceea ce am fost si de unde venim” o datoram unor calatori straini, iar lor si gazdelor lor trebuie sa le fim recunoscatori. Ce pacat ca paginile lui Sitwell despre Romania sunt atat de putin cunoscute comparat cu acelea ale prost-inspiratei   &#8220;Trilogii Balcanice&#8221;, scrisa de o autoare frustrata sub un unghi, care  ii arata pe Romani asa cum ii percepea ea, adica sub prisma prejudiciilor arogante, lipsite de sensibilitate si de o cultura temeinica, tipica unei anumite categorii de pseudo-intelectuali din perioada antebelica.</p>
<p>Constantin ROMAN<br />
Londra, 6 Mai 2006</p>
<p>NOTA de Subsol  (2009):<br />
Confluentele Anglo-Romane de mai sus sunt crampeie preluate, sub o forma diferita din  <span style="color: #ff6600;">“Blouse Roumaine &#8211; the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”</span>, o antologie despre femeile din Romania, o carte in curs aparuta la Londra (Centre for Romanian studies &#8211; London, 2009):</p>
<p>Read more about <strong>the Anthology </strong>in:</p>
<p>(1,100 pages, 160 Biographies, 600 quotations)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html">http://www.blouseroumaine.com/buy-the-book/index.html</a></p>
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