ȘCOALA – UN „PROCES SOCIAL EXTREM DE INTERESANT” LA SULINA –EUROPOLIS. SEMNALARE DINTR-O SCRISOARE, DIN ANUL 1909, PĂSTRATĂ ÎN COLECȚIILE BIBLIOTECII ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE, SEMNATĂ DE CĂPITANUL PORTULUI, EUGENIU BOTEZ – SCRIITORUL JEAN BART
SCHOOL – A „HIGHLY INTERESTING SOCIAL PROCESS” AT SULINA – EUROPOLIS. A NOTE FROM A LETTER, DATED 1909, STORED IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY LIBRARY, SIGNED BY THE HARBORMASTER, EUGENIU BOTEZ - THE WRITER JEAN BART

Summary/Abstract: This article also proposes a reconsideration of the relationship between biography - literary work, respectively literary work - historical reality, by selecting the substantive, historical and cultural characteristics, that allow historical research to discover parts of reality unfit for its instruments, then by the double operation of extraction from context and recontextualization, literature bringing accuracy to the knowledge of the subject. More commonly known by his pen name, Jean Bart - Eugeniu Botez (1877 - 1933) the naval officer, was the man who had the strength to change the realities of his world, and the collective memory has remembered his involvement, honoring him over time.Thus, a few months after his death, the Ministry of Instruction, Cults and Arts, announced, through the Official Gazette of August 5, 1933, that the primary school for boys in Sulina, inaugurated on September 29, 1909, will be called "Primary School for Boys "Jean Bart"", according to Royal Decree No. 2165 of July 22, 1933. A unique letter, dated September 12, 1909, signed by the harbormaster, Eugeniu Botez, preserved in the Manuscript Collections of the Romanian Academy Library, is presented as a sketch of the atmosphere developed in the novel Europolis, but it is trenchant in its pages, naming the complicated social and political problems of the small but cosmopolitan community on the outer eastern edge of teh country, where the central authorities were getting harder to reach on the occasion of various festivities. The author requests the establishment of Romanian schools in Sulina where the Romanian language, although the official language of the Romanian state, was not spoken in public institutions. Sulina was the place that brought Jean Bart literary fame by metamorphosing lived experiences between 1909-1913 and 1915-1918 in the novel Europolis. Beyond the narrative, the scenes described artistically document the dynamics of the port world at the border of the country marked by specific political and administrative developments, determined by the functioning of the European Danube Commission (1856 - 1930), status of «porto-franco» of Sulina and recognition of the State Independence of Romania (1878).

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