„Vrem Ambasadă la Paris!” – Demersurile autorităţilor române pentru modificarea statutului legaţiei din capitala Franţei (1926)
“We want the Embassy in Paris!” – Demands of the Romanian authorities to modify the status of the legation in the French capital (1926)

Summary/Abstract: After the end of the Great War and the Great Union of Alba-Iulia, the Romanian authorities felt that Romania needed to play a more important role on the international stage. Underlying this will was the Romanians' intention to strengthen relations with France, the main winner of the great world war that had just ended and the epicentre of European diplomacy in the new international context. Thus, the Romanian government had sent to the banks of the Seine career diplomats of prestige and experience, such as Victor Antonescu and Constantin Diamandi, in order to properly resolve all the differences that existed between the two countries and to create, in the future, the path towards new ways of collaboration.The promotion of the Polish legation in Paris to the level of embassy in the autumn of 1924 aroused passions in Bucharest and convinced the Romanian government that this was the way forward. The signing of the Franco-Romanian Treaty on June 10, 1926 strengthened Romania's position internationally. This success was now to be complemented by a change in the status of the legation in Paris. This step was important for the Romanian authorities because it ensured that Romanian diplomacy would be given special attention and appreciation of the interests that the creditor state attached to its diplomatic relations. Obtaining a new diplomatic status would have corresponded to the will of the Romanian state to take over some of the importance that the former Austro-Hungarian Empire had enjoyed in the past and to assert itself as an important power in south-eastern Europe.

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