2. Nicolae Titulescu was a Romanian diplomat, at
various times government minister, finance and
foreign minister, and for two terms President of
the General Assembly of the League of Nations.
3. Nicolae Titulescu was born in Craiova, the son of
a solicitor. He passed through his childhood at his
father's estate in Titulești, Olt County. Upon
graduating with honours in 1900 from the Carol I
High School in Craiova, he studied law in Paris,
obtaining his doctorate with the thesis Essai sur
une théorie des droits éventuels. In 1905,
Titulescu returned to Romania as a professor of
law at the University of Iași, and in 1907 he
moved to Bucharest.
4. Following the Romanian elections of 1912, he
became a parliamentarian with the Conservative-
Democrat Party led by Take Ionescu, and five years
later he became a member of the government of Ion I.
C. Brătianu as Minister of Finance.
In the summer of 1918, together with other prominent
Romanians (Take Ionescu, Octavian Goga, Traian
Vuia, Constantin Mille), Titulescu formed, in Paris, the
National Romanian Committee, with the purpose of
promoting in international public opinion the right of
the Romanian people to national unity, the committee
being officially recognised as the plenipotentiary de
facto organ of the Romanian nation.
From 1927 to 1928, Titulescu was the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
5. Later in 1936, King Carol II removed Titulescu from all official
positions, asking him to leave the country. Settling first in
Switzerland, he later moved to France. While in exile, Nicolae
Titulescu continued through conferences and newspaper articles
to propagate the idea of the preservation of peace, perceiving
the danger of a war that was to come all too soon after. He
returned to Romania in November 1937, partly through the
efforts of Iuliu Maniu.
In 1937, Titulescu again left Romania and took refuge in France.
At Cannes, he denounced the Romanian Fascist regime. In
1941, Nicolae Titulescu died in Cannes following a long illness.
In his will, he asked to be buried in Romania.
In 1989, after the fall of the communist Romanian government
during the Romanian Revolution, Titulescu's request became
possible. On 14 March 1992, his remains were reburied in the
Sfânta Ecaterina cemetery in Șcheii Brașovului, next to St.
Nicholas Church, Brașov after a difficult legal procedure
organized by Jean-Paul Carteron, a French attorney.
