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Nice

Summary/Abstract: Nice does not rank amongst the major towns in the map of Polish Romanticism; for historians of the period, it is of almost no significance, if compared to e.g. Paris or Rome. However, Nice was domesticated in the history of our Romanticism as the most idyllic space of all, save perhaps for the imagined Soplicowo from Mickiewicz’s Master Thaddeus. It was namely created as such by Zygmunt Krasiński who had his love affair there with Delfina Potocka in 1840s, the time when the former provincial hole was turning into an international health resort. The text tells a story on Krasiński’s stay in Nice at the moment the town was experiencing the said economic and social transition.

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