Ultima vizită a lui Nicolae Ceaușescu în Franța – iulie 1980 – un eșec diplomatic
Nicolae Ceausescu’s last visit in France from July 1980, a diplomatic fiasco

Summary/Abstract: Unfortunately for Bucharest’s regime, the excellent Romanian-French relations established during Charles de Gaulle’s presidency, slowly lost their intensity and consistency, a processes that started with Ceausescu’s visit in France in 1970 and ended with the visit of Valery Giscard D’Estaing from 1979, his French counterpart. As a head of state, in the period between Nicolae Ceausescu’s first visit in France from June 1970 and his last visit in Paris from July 1980, the Romanian and French relations entered a stage of impairment, culminating with a total downfall during the eight decade of the last century. Even though Ceausescu’s visit in France from 1970 didn’t had spectacular economic consequences, the visit represented a diplomatic success for the communist regime from Bucharest, contributing at the consolidation of Romanian and French relations. Our research is based, in an overwhelming proportion, on the documents belonging to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, sources that can be found at the Romanian National Archives.

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