21 Facts About Constantin Mille

Also according to his testimony, Constantin Mille spent much of his childhood and early youth in a boarding school.

Constantin Mille attended the local university's Faculty of Law in autumn 1878, and became associated with other socialists, including the Russian-born Nicolae Russel, a physician and noted militant, as well as the locals Alexandru Badarau, and the brothers Ioan and Gheorghe Nadejde.

Constantin Mille began his association with the Iasi-based socialist magazine Contemporanul, which carried a polemic with the established literary society Junimea, and authored his first poems, collected in a "red notebook".

Ultimately expelled from the faculty due to his politics, Constantin Mille left for France, where he attended the University of Paris.

The correspondence was published in its entirety by the Romanian newspaper, which led Constantin Mille to declare that "any inanity can fit in the journal's columns".

Ultimately, Constantin Mille revealed that he was responsible for the whole affair ; although Timpul did not reply, Mihai Eminescu, the influential poet who worked in the journal's mail room and reviewed all letters, later confessed to Zamfir Arbore that he had "given approval for print without reading them".

Constantin Mille completed his studies in Brussels, at the Universite Libre, being awarded a diploma in Law.

Constantin Mille returned to Romania during the same year, and settled in Bucharest, joining the local Bar association.

In 1893, Constantin Mille joined the newly created PSDMR and stood among its most radical members, calling for immediate social reform.

Constantin Mille was to be expelled from the group two years later, due to his purchase of Adevarul, which was considered bourgeois in tone.

At the time, Constantin Mille was proposed as an independent candidate for Teleorman County, running for the Third Electoral College, and came to serve a mandate in the Chamber of Deputies.

Interested in international causes, Constantin Mille was, by 1903, a vocal supporter of Alfred Dreyfus and Emile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair which split France into two rival political camps, one in arguing in favor of nationalism and militarism and the other in favor of justice and human rights.

Constantin Mille took the same stand on similar issues involving relations with the Russian and Ottoman Empires, calling for Bessarabians, Albanians and Aromanians who had evaded to Romania not to be persecuted.

Constantin Mille issued his second daily in 1904: begun as a morning edition of Adevarul, Dimineata soon became a paper on its own, and, through it, Mille was responsible for bringing in several innovations in the local press.

Constantin Mille introduced colored print and images, leading Dimineata to claim that it was the first daily to be published in color, and was the first in his country to make use of Linotype machines.

Additionally, Constantin Mille's paper called for reparations to be paid to victims' families, for an amnesty to be declared, and for Vasile Kogalniceanu, an activist who supported the peasant cause and faced trial, to be set free; it published the influential protest of Ion Luca Caragiale, which questioned the establishment and policies of Romania.

In reaction to this, Constantin Mille accused the generosi of having left room for confusion inside the socialist camp by way of their departure to the PNL, and speculated that, through their tacit acceptance of PNL politics, they had provoked a rise in the popularity of "Anarchism".

In 1911, Constantin Mille wrote several articles defending Alexandru Nicolau, an activist of the newly created Social Democratic Party who was facing trial for his vocal criticism of the Romanian Army.

At a time when the socialist movement grouped itself around the Zimmerwald Movement and called for Romania to stay out of the World War, Constantin Mille became instead a vocal supporter of joining the Entente Powers, insisting that Romania should assist France and take over Transylvania.

Constantin Mille claimed: "[Ionescu] thus compensated for the weakness of his party, both in men and ideas, through corrupting the press".

Constantin Mille gradually ceased his work at Adevarul and, shortly before his death, handed the paper over to a consortium headed by Aristide Blank.