Radu ALBU COMĂNESCU
Marthe, Princess Bibesco (1886–1973). Diplomacy through Arts and Letters
Institution:
Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University
Author's email:
radu.albu@euro.ubbcluj.ro
Abstract:
With a European high-life and known for being a famed writer and socialite of the 1900s-1930s, Marthe Bibesco proves to have had played the role of a cultural diplomat ‘avant la lettre’. Revealed by her writings and ideas, her perspectives on Europe’s politics, civilization and way of life, as well as those on her country’s role and cultural vocation, were astutely put together in order to create the image of a Romania whose complexity was as enchanting as Europe’s own.
