Richard Franasovici, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Franasovici

politician

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1883

Place of Birth: Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: politician

Nationality: France, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Richard Franasovici

  • Richard Franasovici (April 8, 1883 – July 24, 1964) was a Romanian politician. Born in Turnu Severin, his family was of Aromanian descent.
  • They had settled in the town around 1830, but kept Austrian citizenship until 1906.
  • Another account suggests the family were Serbs who had settled in the Banat.
  • After attending primary school in his native city, Franasovici went to Saint Sava National College in Bucharest, graduating in 1900.
  • He graduated from the Law faculty of Bucharest University in 1904.
  • The following year, he was named judge's assistant for the Bal? district.
  • In 1906, he became a lawyer at the Turnu Severin city hall, as well as state's attorney for Mehedin?i County.Initially a member of the Conservative Party, he defected to Take Ionescu’s new Conservative-Democratic Party in 1908.
  • He served as an officer in World War I.
  • After the war, he entered the National Liberal Party (PNL) as part of its younger wing, opposed to the Bratianu family’s domination.
  • Franasovici was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1919.In 1922, Franasovici was named general secretary in the Interior Ministry.
  • He was undersecretary of state in 1923-1924 and 1927-1928.
  • In the early 1930s, King Carol II exacerbated divisions within the PNL by encouraging a faction led by Gheorghe Tatarescu, Ion Incule? and Franasovici, who saw a chance to depose Vintila Bratianu and achieve power.He was Minister of Public Works from November 1933 to November 1937.
  • In January 1934, after King Carol dismissed the cabinet of Constantin Angelescu, the young Liberals proposed Franasovici as Prime Minister.
  • The king agreed, but Franasovici declined, claiming it would be inappropriate for the head of government to have received Romanian citizenship only as an adult.
  • Instead, he proposed Tatarescu; the king accepted.By 1937, Franasovici was a prominent member of the royal camarilla.
  • That November, although Tatarescu had other candidates in mind, he was named Interior Minister upon the insistence of Dinu Bratianu.
  • The appointment was seconded by camarilla colleague Gabriel Marinescu.
  • The ministry traditionally grew in importance at election time, due to its repressive capabilities.
  • At the time, an election was approaching.
  • Franasovici was presented to the public as a choice who would guarantee the integrity of the vote.
  • He had a conciliatory attitude, particularly toward the Iron Guard, whose reprisals he greatly feared.During the campaign, the ministry used the police to block opposition activity, at times using teargas.
  • Tatarescu lost the election, ending Franasovici's brief stint as Interior Minister.
  • He then served as ambassador to Poland (1938-1939) and France (1939-1940).
  • In July 1945, he became ambassador to Switzerland.
  • The following February, he was sent to London as ambassador.
  • He attended the Paris peace conference.In November 1947, he resigned from the diplomatic service and went into exile.
  • The following February, the new communist regime stripped him of his citizenship.
  • He died in Paris.Franasovici’s wife was named Mary.
  • Her mother’s first husband, Mary’s father, was one Filipescu; the mother later married Alexandru Vaitoianu, a future general.
  • Mary and Franasovici were married after World War I.
  • According to the memoirs of Constantin Argetoianu, the young politician was motivated by the fact that he had no property, while she owned an estate at Râmnicu Sarat.
  • He adds: “even before the marriage she was a slut, indeed a disgusting slut.
  • She clung to Richard, creating a scene whenever he came to see her, yelled and managed to faint”.
  • Franasovici, whom he nicknames Richard CĹ“ur de Cochon (“Richard the Pig-Heart”), would often go for advice to Alexandru Averescu.
  • Once, Argetoianu was present when the two men were discussing Mary, who “was dying”.
  • The latter, a doctor, advised Franasovici to “give her a sound beating, sir, it’ll pass right away”.
  • Upon hearing this advice, Mary got up and spat upon Argetoianu.

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