Norwid w Bibliotece Polskiej w Paryżu
Norwid in the Polish Library in Paris

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the documents found while completing the tasks within the framework of a research project (no. 0514/NPRH/H1a/83/2015) in Alojzy Władysław Strzembosz’s output preparation in the Polish Library in Paris. The documents refer to Cyprian Norwid’s death and the issues linked to his funeral and exhumation. They include, inter alia, the poet’s death certificate dated May 24th, 1883, issued by the 13th arrondissement’s Mayor’s office, the Ivry Cemetery’s exhumation bill issued April 18th, 1888, and a bill for transferring his corpse to the Montmorency Cemetery dated September 27th, 1888. Among the discovered archive papers one also finds those that pertain to the activities of the Komisja Opieki nad Grobami Polskimi (Society for the Protection of Polish Graves) (now Towarzystwo Opieki nad Polskimi Zabytkami i Grobami Historycznymi we Francji <Society for the Protection of Monuments and Historical Graves in France>) that started in France towards the end of 1830s. The article discusses and describes the discoveries, as well as their significance for the present day knowledge in the poet’s posthumous fortune and for the activities of the Polish émigrés in Paris for the protection of Polish graves.

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