His spouse and children and mates understood him as Iancu or, seldom, Iancuțu-both getting antiquated hypocoristics of Ion. In 1866, Caragiale witnessed Cuza’s toppling by a coalition of conservatives and liberals-as he later acknowledged in his Grand Hotel “Victoria Română”, he and his mates agreed to guidance the move by voting “indeed” for the duration of a subsequent plebiscite, and, with tacit approval from the new authorities, even did so many situations each individual. Together with the French republican Frédéric Damé, he also headed …