 He was detained by the authorities at various intervals, including an arrest for sedition during the 1899 election, and was later found guilty of having blackmailed the banker Aristide Blank.Late in his life, he led "Seara", a Germanophile daily, as well as a literary and political circle which came to oppose Romania's entry into World War I on the Entente Powers' side.He was arrested one final time upon the end of the war, by which time he had become the object of public hatred.