LES ROUMAINES À PARIS. ÉCRIVAINES FRANÇAISES D'ORIGINE ROUMAINE : DORA D'ISTRIA, ANNA DE NOAILLES ET MARTHE BIBESCO OU COMMENT PEUT-ON ÊTRE ROUMAIN DANS L'EUROPE DES NATIONS?

I will discuss in this paper on Romanian-born French women-writers, illustrious authors of high repute: Dora d'Istria, Anna de Noailles and Martha Bibesco. Three women and as many cultural routes of exceptional women, Romanian women, women of letters and lounges, French women-writers. Three interesting and convergent cases, since all three choose to write in French texts that relate, in their great majority, of Romania. More than Anna de Noailles, who was born in Paris of Romanian parents in exile, both Dora d'Istria and Martha Bibesco come from Bucharest, choose the Parisian scene when leaving Romania, write in French and they become French writers. Paris, the capital of literary phenomena and of cultural crossroads, a city of excitement and fervor, is causing a surge of creativity, the privileged space of a permanent bubbling. A literary capital in the nineteenth century, Paris attracted the Romanian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century, who was, moreover, Francophone and Francophile. Homelessness is part of this displacement and deterritorialization. I will consider Paris as part of my presentation to compare my three Romanian-born French writers, studying the biographical and autobiographical aspects of the exile. From Bucharest to Paris, the Romanian Dora d'Istria and Martha Bibesco seize this space and internalize it. From Paris to Bucharest, the opposite is done this time by the Romanians living in Paris, by Dora, Martha, but also Anna de Noailles, around whom is grouped the Romanian high society attracted by Bucharest, the road runs both ways and space works by means of bipolarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]