1. Elena Bacaloglu married and divorced writer Radu D Rosetti, then Ovid Densusianu, the Symbolist poet and literary theorist.
47 Facts About Elena Bacaloglu
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Elena Bacaloglu lived most of her later life in the Kingdom of Italy, where she affiliated with the literary and political circles.
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Elena Bacaloglu's National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement was a minor and heterodox political party, but managed to earn attention with its advocacy of political violence.
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Elena Bacaloglu's ancestors were first mentioned in Bucharest about 1826, having settled in Wallachia as foreign nationals, and set up business as land speculators.
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Elena Bacaloglu was "extremely beautiful"; Ovid, much less educated than his wife, was "short and limp".
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In 1906, Elena Bacaloglu published her psychological novel, In lupta, followed in 1908 by another novelistic work, Doua torte.
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Elena Bacaloglu's writing was poorly reviewed by the literary chronicler at Viata Romaneasca, who argued that In lupta was impossible to read through.
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The book was presented to the Romanian Academy as a candidate for the annual literary prize, but was rejected with objections regarding Elena Bacaloglu's "tortured" writing technique and her poor grasp of literary Romanian.
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Meanwhile, Elena Bacaloglu had separated from Densusianu, divorcing him in 1904.
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Elena Bacaloglu later married a third time, to an Italian.
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Elena Bacaloglu represented Romania at the Castel Sant'Angelo National Exhibit, and, as "Helene Bacaloglu", gave French-language conferences about Di Giacomo.
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Elena Bacaloglu described Bacaloglu as an illegitimate, self-appointed, representative, and noted that the Italian press mistrusted her abilities.
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Elena Bacaloglu presented her own version of the events in a protest to the curators, later published as a brochure.
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Elena Bacaloglu still continued to be held in esteem by her Romanian peers and, in 1912, was voted into their Romanian Writers' Society.
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Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Elena Bacaloglu turned to political activism and interventionism, campaigning for still-neutral Romania to join the Entente Powers, and supporting the annexation of Romanian-inhabited Transylvania.
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Elena Bacaloglu joined the Pan-Latin association Latina Gens, which welcomed in members of all "Latin" nations and looked forward to a "Latin federation" of states.
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Elena Bacaloglu subsequently played a part in creating the "Romanian Legion in Italy".
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Elena Bacaloglu addressed Italian journalists Giuseppe Bottai and Piero Bolzon, who agreed to become members of Bacaloglu's Romanian fascist steering committee.
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At the time, Elena Bacaloglu was a friend of philosopher and fascist admirer Benedetto Croce, and corresponded with him on a regular basis.
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Just as she was embarking on this ideological mission, Elena Bacaloglu was drawn into a conflict with the Romanian political establishment.
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Elena Bacaloglu again complained that Romanian Siguranta agents tried to kidnap her during the Genoa Conference.
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Elena Bacaloglu corresponded with Bacaloglu, sending her point-by-point instructions about "Latin expansionism" and about economic cooperation against capitalism.
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Elena Bacaloglu denounced Romania's foreign policies in articles she wrote for the Italian newspapers, depicting liberal politicians as lackeys of the French Republic.
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However, in 1923, Elena Bacaloglu reentered central politics as leader of the reconstructed MNFIR, directly modeled on the Fasci Italiani.
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Elena Bacaloglu believed that the Little Entente, which was partly dedicated to countering Italian irredentism but included Romania, would leave the two countries prey to capitalist and Jewish exploitation.
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The news was taken up in another Transylvanian paper, Clujul, which claimed that "the lawyer Elena Bacaloglu" had "taken revenge on his sister's slanderer".
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Meanwhile, George Elena Bacaloglu, interviewed by the press, denied any connection with his sister's movement.
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Sandi Elena Bacaloglu was imprisoned, facing charges of attempted assassination and sedition.
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Elena Bacaloglu is credited as a founder of the successor National Fascist Movement, closed down by Romanian Police in 1925.
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Elena Bacaloglu became a persona non grata and was deported from Italy once Mussolini grew aware of her dissident stance.
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Sandi Elena Bacaloglu signed his name to the appeal as a Fascio representative, and became a member of the LANC's executive council, on par with Ioan Mota, Ion Zelea Codreanu, Iuliu Hatieganu, Valeriu Pop, Iuniu Lecca.
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Elena Bacaloglu claimed that the authorities still owed her some 4 million Lei, which she tried to obtain from Interior Affairs Minister Octavian Goga and from Writers' Society president Liviu Rebreanu.
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In 1928, Elena Bacaloglu left Romania on a visit to the Kingdom of Spain, where she continued to campaign for Pan-Latinism and collaborated with La Gaceta Literaria.
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Elena Bacaloglu later returned to Bucharest as a representative of Balcan Oriente news agency.
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Elena Bacaloglu herself remained active on the margin of Romanian politics, witnessing from the side as Prince Carol retook his throne with the help of Iuliu Maniu and the National Peasants' Party.
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Elena Bacaloglu approached the Maniu government and the Foreign Ministry with offers of support and complaints about past persecutions, but these were poorly received.
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Elena Bacaloglu was eventually allowed to return to Italy in support of the Romanian propaganda effort, protected by the National Peasantist undersecretary, Savel Radulescu, but lost endorsement in a subsequent transfer of power.
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Elena Bacaloglu continued with her appeals to Rebreanu and writer-bureaucrat Eugen Filotti.
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Elena Bacaloglu stated that, in exchange for recognition of financial support, she could obtain Mussolini's endorsement for the National Peasantists, who were in the opposition.
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Sandi Elena Bacaloglu carried on a LANC activist and then joined the successor National Christian Party, running in the legislative election of 1937 in Bucharest's Black Sector.
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Elena Bacaloglu had prospects of becoming a writer, and is especially remembered for a 1937 novel, Stapanul.
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Elena Bacaloglu adhered to his mother and uncle's fascist ideology: he was a staff writer for the Iron Guard paper Porunca Vremii, translated the political essays of Mussolini and Antonio Beltramelli, and campaigned in support of Italy during the Ethiopian War.
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Elena Bacaloglu was issued new papers attesting her move to Bucharest, and was still living there in April 1945.
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Elena Bacaloglu was assigned by the Iron Guard's "National Legionary State" to direct the Romanian Propaganda Office in Rome, together with writers Aron Cotrus and Vintila Horia, and, in May 1941, became its president.
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In old age, Elena Bacaloglu witnessed the August 1944 Coup, Soviet occupation, and the transition from fascism to democracy, then to communism.
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Elena Bacaloglu maintained friendly contacts with the left-leaning writer Gala Galaction, but nevertheless lived to see the effects of political retaliation and recession on the Bacaloglu family: her daughter by Rosetti was sacked from her government job.
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Elena Bacaloglu died later that year, and was buried in Bellu cemetery.