2021/04/18 by Radu ALBU COMĂNESCU · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
paper · pdf · doi:10.24193/ojmne.2021.35.07
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Based on private and official archives, the text focuses on the background, the diplomatic and paradiplomatic to the throne of Wallachia before the arrival of the Hohenzollern monarchs in 1866, these families developed powerful diplomatic, economic and cultural networks in France, Belgium, Britain, Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary conferred influence at home and in various European circles. With solid foundations built since the 1850s, they helped shaping Romania's diplomacy in the first half of the 20 th century and contributed to the country's pro-European attitude of the 1920s-1930s. Evolving between European capitals and the US, on friendly terms with royalty, high-ranking politicians (Churchill, Roosevelt, Ramsay MacDonald, Lon Blum, Aristide Briand and various French presidents), diplomats and intellectuals (from Louise Weiss, Saint-John Perse, Duff Cooper and Paul Morand to Harold Nicolson, Paul Valry and Wladimir d'Ormesson), industrialists and bankers, the three families promoted ideas or granted support to initiatives that anchored Romania in