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Constantin Gheorghe Banu was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician, who served as Arts and Religious Affairs Minister in 1922–1923. He is remembered in literary history as the founder of Flacăr
Plaque honoring the 1917–1918 National Committee for Romanian Unity, at the former Hôtel des deux mondes, Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris. Banu credited as one of three La Roumanie editors
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Romania from March 1 to March 14, 1911, confirming a majority for the Conservative Party under Petre P. Carp. The united opposition was constituted of the
Constantin Banu
…assassin of Prime Minister Ion I. C. Brătianu. Upon the Conservatives' return to power, he failed to win a seat in the 2nd College Ilfov County in the February 1911 election, running on a coalition anti-Conservative list headed by Nicolae Fleva. On October 22, 1911, Banu and Locusteanu printed the first issue of Flacăra, a…
Carp portrait
Cartoon by Ion Theodorescu-Sion, in Furnica, June 1910. Petre P. Carp as the opinionated student of King Carol I, expressing his wish to come to power "by way of the Palace". Alexandru Marghiloman to his left, shushing the PCD back-benchers (Take Ionescu, Alexandru Bădărău, Nicolae Fleva).
Ion I. C. Brătianu in child's clothes, dragging about a tramcar as his toy. 1913 cartoon by Nicolae Petrescu Găină.