La France dans l’histoire, la culture et le mental des Roumains (I)
France in the History, Culture and the Mental of the Romanians

Summary/Abstract: Our research approaches the historical and cultural relations between Romania and France from the Middle Ages contacts (situated on the boudary between history and legend), till the Modern Age, when these contacts experienced a burgeoning period. Our paper tries to re-construct the image of France and the French people as they have evolved in time in the Romanians’ mentality, with specific differences, historically and politically motivated, between Moldavia and Romanian County on one side, and Transylvania on the other side. Without being exhaustive, the research approaches those fields where the interaction between the two cultures prevailed. It also presents the outstanding French profiles that influenced the Romanian culture, and the French as well, trying to explain the causes of the Romanians’ „francophilia” and „francophonia” (today, unfortunately, in decline). Our research fully demonstrates, we think, the extent of the historical and cultural relations between the two peoples, of the same Latin kinship.

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