Translations:CP 03065/41/en
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- ↑ Take Ionesco (1858-1922), barrister and Romanian statesman, deputy, former minister, was actually from a modest background but completed his higher education in Paris and married an Englishwoman. A francophile, he campaigned in 1914 against the germanophiles (see the very detailed Wikipedia article on this subject [in English]). Le Figaro of 4 January 1916 ("La Roumanie", p. 2) stressed the ardent desire of leaders of the opposition, including Take Ionesco, to rejoin the Allies and deplored the Romanian government's decision to maintain the country's neutrality. Proust's spelling ("Jonesco") corresponds to the gallicizing of his name in the press of the time. [PK, FP, FL]