Mariu remained in office under the emergency cabinet of Constantin Coandă, during which time Romania gravitated back toward the Entente camp: an interlude of "anarchy", as he himself put it. Caton rushed out of Paris in February or March 1918, when the Germans dropped incendiary bombs on that city, and took his family to Switzerland. By August, he was living in Lausanne, and taking a political course similar to Mariu's. As he explained in letters addressed to Liviu Rebreanu, he resented the "cheeky" Romanian Ententists who had escaped to France, advocating a purge of those who had "pushed us into a crazy war". Unable to make ends meet in Lausanne, he and his family moved to Bern, where they were assisted by the Romanian Red Cross. The unexpected fall of Germany was registered as a triumph for the Ententists. Mariu, entering Marghiloman's Progressive Conservative Party, contested the November 1919 election and lost his Senate seat. Caton and his family left Switzerland with a Yugoslav sanitary train, stopping in Zemun, then crossing over to Craiova. He returned to Bucharest before or during April 1919, when he took part in the founding of "Sburătorul", a modernist magazine and literary circle. He then had his new play, "Comedia inimei" ("Heart's Comedy"), performed at the National Theater. It was booed on its premiere, then quickly "buried". Theodorian then resumed his activity as a translator, with a version of "L'affaire Clémenceau", by Alexandre Dumas, fils, coming out in 1921. He put out the prose volume "Epice și dramatice" ("Things Epic and Dramatic", 1921), and two other new plays: "Nevestele domnului Pleșu" ("Mr. Pleșu's Wives"), and "Stăpâna" ("Mistress", first performed in 1919, published 1936). With Eftimiu and Mavrodi as managers of the National Theater, the latter were performed as part of the mandatory quota of "original plays" during the early 1920s. At the time, his family suffered a loss. Nonu Theodorian, who was ill with tuberculosis from about 1919, died in 1922. Under the pen name "Jean d'Orient", he had followed his brother's career choices, publishing several art chronicles in "L'Indépendence Roumaine".