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1897, Claymoor prophesied that "cinema will reestablish truth and the sincerity of our lives will be transmitted over the ages, beyond ourselves. To us it is entertainment. To future generations, it will be a priceless document". As argued by one anonymous witness, Claymoor was personally involved in film promotion, making excuses for the technical difficulties and delays. His
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By the 1920s, Bacalbașa claims, "nobody so much as remember this arbiter of female elegance". Crutzescu also noted in passing that
Claymoor's writing style was antiquated, "so very obnoxious". His "yellowing notebooks", Crutzescu writes, revealed a world "of bearded and mustachioed gents and ladies
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Claymoor earned more respect as a pioneer cinema critic: in 1896–1897, he was among the first to chronicle the earliest
Romanian film shows and, as film historian Dinu-Ioan Nicola argues, had "surprising critical intuitions." Having been present at a screening of Paul Menu's "Romanian vistas" in May
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had it that he was "famous throughout
Bucharest for his scandalous life". Zamfirescu portrays him as "an unbelievable type, who wore bracelets like a woman, pink nail polish, a tuft of hair which supposedly hid his bald spot, and who was rumored to be of the ticklish kind." Writer-diplomat Gheorghe
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and "only reading
Claymoor's notebook therein" was a central preoccupation for girls just out of boarding school. According to Crutzescu: "not being cited by Claymoor was a catastrophe, an insult that equated social death. Which is why Claymoor's home was always full of diverse gifts, from ladies
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recalls him as "perfectly collegial", "a very decent man". However, he also cautions that
Claymoor "was a journalist, but by no means was he one of the journalistic world; he lived inside the boyar society that had spawned and raised him". More controversially, from 1888, when he became a Romanian
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made a short note on
Claymoor's life, as part of his "Bucharest Engravings" column. The piece mentioned a "tiny, stupefying mythology" that had surrounded Claymoor, and repeated rumors about his writing having been secretly sponsored by couturiers. The communist decades had intensified taboos
294:; Maria m. Fălcoianu (1841–1912); Ecaterina m. Lahovary (1846–1917); Alexandrina m. Darvary (1851–1899); Constantin (1850–1899). Claymoor's cousins also included Theodor C. Văcărescu, the diplomat and historian. The clan had acquired a bad reputation in social circles. Novelist and diplomat
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as adhering to "Western journalistic norms", and notes
Claymoor's role in pioneering locally the genre of "fashion reports": "the crafty Mihail Văcărescu-Claymoor chronicled all the political and diplomatic receptions, all artistic reunions and balls, concerts, fêtes and weddings involving
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Claymoor's "pirouettes-and-colored-ribbons" prose. Caragiale's sketch "High-life", first published on
Christmas Eve 1899, is entirely dedicated to Claymoor, who appears as "Edgar Bostandaki" or "Turturel" ("Turtledove"), chronicler for the fictional
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would have been "more or less justified in a city like Paris", but asked: "what point could it serve in
Romania?" In the absence of an aristocratic culture, Claymoor only "fed the vanities" of a commercial "plutocracy". Similarly, Bulei sees the
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that, when stirred, will rustle the way dead leaves do." Nevertheless, according to
Ranetti, his "aping of the Paris press" created a school of party chroniclers, or "Claymoorlings". These journalists, Ranetti noted, were even active at
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journal referred to Claymoor himself as a "cosmopolitan critic" of Caragiale, and also as a "house servant" of the upper classes. During the later stages of communism, there were also more lenient verdicts: in 1970, writer
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newspaper described Claymoor as "a sad figure in journalism". It deplored the Frenchified culture which had produced Claymoor, but also noted that his metaphorical style was being laughed at by the Belgian paper
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There are other supposed echoes of Claymoor in Romanian prose. One had roots in the conflicts opposing members of the Caragiale family: while Ion Luca resented and mocked Claymoor, his estranged eldest son,
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Văcărescu's exact birth date remains unknown. However, he died at the age of 60 or 61, meaning that he was born in 1842 or 1843. It also certain that he was of aristocratic upbringing, from the
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announced that he intended to marry Claymoor's niece Elena. This highly unpopular move resulted in a "violent campaign curses, vulgarities and lies" directed at the Văcărescu family.
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s success (it became the second-most popular newspaper by 1897), Claymoor made a return trip to Paris in 1899. He died in Bucharest on June 12, 1903, after falling down in front of
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princes who succeeded Brâncoveanu: Ienăchiță and his brothers were most likely poisoned, while Alecu was imprisoned under false charges. Iancu was also a dissident during the
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who wished not to be forgotten, or overlooked." Văcărescu's recommendations were such "that all fashionable society would adopt both the seamstress and the attire."
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relish." He suggests that some of the chronicles—for instance one describing Zoe Sturdza, wife of the politician
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daily (1873–1876), where he used the pen name Velréas. He later had a stint at the left-wing paper
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Bucharest's elite families." The concept was criticized by anti-elitists. In 1912, the left-wing
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Ferrari, "Le Monde & La Ville. Renseignements mondains", in
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People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
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Exposition universelle 1889. La Roumanie avant-pendant-après
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ai lui Mateiu I. Caragiale. Între fantezie și istorie", in
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Rumânii fericiți. Vot și putere de la 1831 până în prezent
1741:"Ocasiune! Obiectele defunctului Văcărescu Claymoor", in
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fashion journalist and gossip columnist, the son of poet
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M. N. Rusu, "Automobilul lui Matheiu I. Caragiale", in
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Vistian Goia, "Centenarul comediei românești. Premiera
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Istoria literaturii române. III: Epoca marilor clasici
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Istoria literaturii române. III: Epoca marilor clasici
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Claymoor's period of prominence, at the height of the
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continued to be published over the following years.
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Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) politicians
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2068:Nicolae Sireteanu, Eugen Luca, "Cronica dramatică.
817:series—one of his favorite techniques here was to
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1569:, "Caragiale director al Teatrului Național", in
1490:Amint., "Zeflemelele. 'Fetele noastre'. III", in
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331:writes, "a notorious pederast"; an 1891 piece in
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1297:Ferrari, "Le Monde & La Ville. Deuil", in
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1832:, "Moș Teacă și Mealy. La teatrul liric", in
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2010:"Precizări la biografia lui Matila C. Ghyka"
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1675:"Duelul Emanoil Lahovary–Nicolae Filipescu"
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1700:, "Stampe bucureștene: Claymoor", in
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1607:"Sur les traces du film roumain muet"
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1801:, 1973; Ion Roman, "Ion Ghica", in
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2072:de Mircea Ștefănescu", in
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1732:, 1972; Crutzescu, p. 259
1587:, "Teatrul romanesc", in
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82:journalist, army officer
2238:Romanian art collectors
2115:, Vol. III. Bucharest:
2113:Bucureștii de altă dată
2008:Mihai Sorin Rădulescu,
1747:, January 9, 1904, p. 3
1724:Gheorghe G. Bezviconi,
1555:Biblioteca Bucureștilor
1150:"În epoca lui Claymoor"
733:L'Indépendence Roumaine
726:L'Indépendence Roumaine
596:L'Indépendence Roumaine
548:L'Indépendence Roumaine
472:L'Indépendence Roumaine
429:L'Indépendence Roumaine
265:first princely election
169:L'Indépendence Roumaine
1575:, Issue 9/1939, p. 650
1541:, Issue 10/1959, p. 20
1518:și cronicarii ei", in
1325:, Issue 132/1881, p. 3
1190:, November 1973, p. 14
1095:, pp. 258, 260. Iași:
714:Nicolae Petrescu Găină
541:Crown Prince Ferdinand
243:Constantin Brâncoveanu
224:Iancu (Ioan) Văcărescu
2278:Lycée Henri-IV alumni
2218:Romanian film critics
2124:Craii de Curtea-Veche
1949:, p. 351. Bucharest:
1866:, p. 343. Bucharest:
1728:, p. 277. Bucharest:
1706:, June 20, 1970, p. 2
1653:"Bunica cinefilă (I)"
1468:, Issue 36/1912, p. 2
1341:, p. 244. Bucharest:
1303:, June 28, 1903, p. 2
1253:, July 25, 1891, p. 9
1024:, July 26, 1899, p. 2
959:, p. 768. Bucharest:
926:, p. 722. Bucharest:
847:Craii de Curtea-Veche
755:Almanach du High-Life
460:Almanach du High-Life
321:United Principalities
300:Constantin Argetoianu
2149:Gheorghe Crutzescu,
2109:Constantin Bacalbașa
2096:, Issue 4/1990, p. 5
1715:Popescu-Cadem, p. 27
1557:, Issue 7/2002, p. 5
1238:Bacalbașa, pp. 60–61
1033:Popescu-Cadem, p. 10
996:"O adresă high-life"
898:censorship apparatus
824:Voice of the Aurochs
640:Dimitrie Rosetti-Max
605:O scrisoare pierdută
504:Constantin Bacalbașa
468:La Lanterne Mondaine
442:La Roumanie Ilustrée
256:Regulamentul Organic
247:Pruth River Campaign
210:Early life and debut
164:Romanian Land Forces
137:Mihail Ion Văcărescu
2208:Romanian columnists
2198:Fashion journalists
2165:Document în replică
1726:Necropola Capitalei
1658:Convorbiri Literare
1432:"Informațiuni", in
1363:"Informațiuni", in
1067:, pp. 52–54. Iași:
557:Carnet du High-life
480:Gazette de Roumanie
456:Carnet du High-life
383:arms, variant used
232:Ienăchiță Văcărescu
230:and grandnephew of
2293:Deaths from ulcers
2163:C. Popescu-Cadem,
2028:Angelo Mitchievici
1981:Corneliu Șenchea,
1605:Dinu-Ioan Nicola,
1516:Scrisorii pierdute
1158:, October 18, 2002
1089:Grigore Lăcusteanu
863:Angelo Mitchievici
841:Sub pecetea tainei
782:Constantin Jiquidi
694:Alexandru Beldiman
679:Constantin Jiquidi
610:Ion Luca Caragiale
513:Conservative Party
486:Arbiter of fashion
381:Cantacuzino family
280:Cantacuzino family
261:Alexandru II Ghica
195:Ion Luca Caragiale
191:Kingdom of Romania
174:Conservative Party
113:fashion journalism
73:Kingdom of Romania
2243:Almanac compilers
2203:Gossip columnists
2173:978-973-8369-21-4
2159:978-606-8337-19-7
2135:George Costescu,
2088:Dan C. Mihăilescu
1943:Șerban Cioculescu
1925:"Cum grano salis"
1868:Editura Academiei
1852:Șerban Cioculescu
1848:Silvian Iosifescu
1799:Editura Academiei
1783:Șerban Cioculescu
1767:Traian Demetrescu
1756:Crutzescu, p. 151
1673:Emanuel Bădescu,
1567:Șerban Cioculescu
1551:Dan C. Mihăilescu
1505:Crutzescu, p. 119
1460:Kiriak Napadarjan
1384:Georges Bibesco,
1312:Crutzescu, p. 135
1265:Crutzescu, p. 118
1199:Cazacu, pp. 13–14
1182:Duiliu Zamfirescu
1105:978-973-46-4083-6
1077:978-973-46-2201-6
902:Dan C. Mihăilescu
814:Momente și schițe
790:Romanian littoral
533:Muslim population
496:Nicolae Filipescu
296:Duiliu Zamfirescu
236:Ianache Văcărescu
220:Wallachian boyars
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121:theater criticism
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