He fought in the
Second Balkan War and in 1915 headed the Bucharest reserve officers' school. In 1916, he became a major, rising to lieutenant colonel in 1917; during World War I, he was part of the general staff. In 1920, he was made a colonel and aide to Prince Carol (from 1930 King
Carol II), whom he accompanied on a world tour. A professor at the Higher War School, he resigned from the army in 1926, and in 1933 was made a brigadier-general in the reserves. Condiescu made his published debut in 1895, in the Craiova-based
Revista idealistă. Under the pen name Nicolae Corbu, he wrote verses and prose from 1895 to 1897 in
Foaia pentru toți,
Foaia populară and
Revista idealistă, but then took a fifteen-year break from magazine contributions. He wrote a travel book,
Peste mări și țări (vol. I, 1922; vol. II, 1923), after which he gained a reputation as a novelist with
Conu Enake (1928) and
Însemnările lui Safirim (1936). ==Notes==