Exilul românesc de la Paris și influența sa asupra presei franceze, 1977-1989

Abstract

Towards the end of the 1970s, there is a reactivation of the Romanian exile, along with the change on the international level. The contacts with the French mass media meant a lot for the Romanian refugees in exile: they now had the context to express themselves freely, and above all, to finally be listened to. Access to the major French publications, a dream for the generation of exiles in the early communist decades, now a reality – gave them a huge opening to the Western world. The few Romanians in exile gathered around Monica Lovinescu (Mihnea Berindei, Paul Goma, Dumitru Țepeneag, Marie-France Ionescu, etc.), will successfully manage to use all their resources and any means in order to attract French journalists to their side. Things became all the more serious, as the issue of journalists visiting our country became internationalized, especially in the last two years of the regime.