1. UNIVERSITY OF AGRONOMIC SCIENCES AND VETERINARY
MEDICINE OF BUCHAREST
Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander
during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets (as well as being interim Foreign Minister in
January–March 1918 and Minister without portfolio in 1938)
Averescu quit the army in the spring of 1918, aiming for a career in politics — initially, with a message that was hostile
to the National Liberal Party (PNL) and its leader Ion I. C. Brătianu.
Eliza Brătianu, the PNL leader's wife, placed Averescu's ascension in the context of Greater Romania's creation
through the addition of Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania (while making use of the condescending National
Liberal tone towards the Romanian National Party that was emerging triumphant in previously Austro-
HungarianTransylvania):
According to Eliza Brătianu (who was comparing Averescu with the French rebel soldier Georges Boulanger), several
voices inside his movement called on Averescu to lead a republican coup d'état against King Ferdinand and her
husband — a move allegedly prevented only by the general's loyalism. Argetoianu, who admitted that "I shook hands
with Averescu [...] expecting a dictatorial regime", claimed that, during his stay in Italy, the general had been decisively
influenced by Radicalism and the Risorgimento movement.This, in Argetoianu's view, was the cause for his repeated
involvement in conspiracies; he recalled that, in 1919, Davila's house was the scene of regular reunion of officers, who
plotted Brătianu's ousting and pondered dethroning the king (in this version of events, Averescu initially accepted to be
proclaimed dictator, but, around October of that year, called on conspirators to renounce their plan)
Dinu Mihai-Adrian, IMAPA, Group 8112
Acknowledgements:
Coordinating teacher: Mihai-Daniel Frumuşelu
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Ave
rescu#cite_note-eliza-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Roman
ia
![UNIVERSITY OF AGRONOMIC SCIENCES AND VETERINARY
MEDICINE OF BUCHAREST
Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander
during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets (as well as being interim Foreign Minister in
January–March 1918 and Minister without portfolio in 1938)
Averescu quit the army in the spring of 1918, aiming for a career in politics — initially, with a message that was hostile
to the National Liberal Party (PNL) and its leader Ion I. C. Brătianu.
Eliza Brătianu, the PNL leader's wife, placed Averescu's ascension in the context of Greater Romania's creation
through the addition of Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania (while making use of the condescending National
Liberal tone towards the Romanian National Party that was emerging triumphant in previously Austro-
HungarianTransylvania):
According to Eliza Brătianu (who was comparing Averescu with the French rebel soldier Georges Boulanger), several
voices inside his movement called on Averescu to lead a republican coup d'état against King Ferdinand and her
husband — a move allegedly prevented only by the general's loyalism. Argetoianu, who admitted that "I shook hands
with Averescu [...] expecting a dictatorial regime", claimed that, during his stay in Italy, the general had been decisively
influenced by Radicalism and the Risorgimento movement.This, in Argetoianu's view, was the cause for his repeated
involvement in conspiracies; he recalled that, in 1919, Davila's house was the scene of regular reunion of officers, who
plotted Brătianu's ousting and pondered dethroning the king (in this version of events, Averescu initially accepted to be
proclaimed dictator, but, around October of that year, called on conspirators to renounce their plan)
Dinu Mihai-Adrian, IMAPA, Group 8112
Acknowledgements:
Coordinating teacher: Mihai-Daniel Frumuşelu
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Ave
rescu#cite_note-eliza-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Roman
ia](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/alexandruaverescu-180530215802/85/Alexandru-averescu-1-320.jpg)
