Isidore Isou, born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.
Isou in his film Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951)
Botoșani is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa.
Clockwise: city park; Furriers' Church (1834); the Old Prefecture (1906-1914), today County Museum; Old City street; bell tower of Popăuți Monastery (1496).
15th-century Saint Nicholas (Popăuți) church
The bell tower of Monastery Popăuți, built in the 15th century by Stephen the Great