Odnaleziony autograf francuskiego wiersza Juliusza Słowackiego
A Regained Autograph of Juliusz Słowacki’s French Poem

Summary/Abstract: The article includes a detailed description of an album (album amicorum) which belonged to Kora Pinard, a Parisian printer’s daughter, with original inscriptions from 1832–1842 by artists and poets, found by a French antiquarian. One of the most precious of the inscriptions is an autograph of Juliusz Słowacki’s French poem “Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise,” known to date only from a copy containing lines 22–48. Referring to the contexts of 1830s literary life in Paris, to French authors biographers and to Słowacki’s literary creativity, the authors of the paper present the connections of the Polish poet with the Pinard family, the origin of the poem in question, as well as an array of intertextual relationships between Słowacki’s poem and the poem “Paryż [Paris]” and also between other Romantics (Byron). The publication offers the first critical edition of the poem in the original French version with the Polish translation.

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