He was an illegitimate child of Tudor Argezi, a great Romanian writer. He was born in Paris, in 1905, after Argezi's affair with Constanta Zissu, a girl school teacher. He married her in 1912, to legalize the child, but they divorced in 1915. He was raised by Arghezi's mother, Erghezi Rozalia. At 19 years, he left his family and never reconnected with them.