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which began in November 1830, formed an interim Polish government under prince Czartoryski, and spread to all parts of the former Commonwealth under Russian rule well into the following year. It was brutally put down by Russia, resulting in thousands of deaths, imprisonment, confiscation of property
196:. The cemetery has become one of the national symbols of Polish resistance to all forms of oppression, and each Spring, it is the rallying place for Poles living in the Paris area, who go there to commemorate their historical leaders and artists. 275:. It was a notionally semi-autonomous province and a fraction of the previous autonomous state, such that it was a monarchy in personal union with the Russian empire and the tsar was known as "King of Poland". However, the tyranny of tsar 176:. Since their interments in the early part of the 19th century, a succession of noted exiled Poles found their final resting place in the cemetery. There are over 276 Polish burials, among them the poets 164:
in the country is due to two Polish political exiles, who happened to be staying at the nearby spa at the time of their death and were buried in the local cemetery. They were the statesman and poet,
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While in the 19th-century resettled Poles conducted their political and intellectual lives in Paris, they favoured Enghien-les-Bains as a holiday destination and
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burial place in France, hence its appellation as the "Pantheon of the Polish Emigration". It is located 15 km north of
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opened a second salon at the spa to entertain guests to Chopin's piano recitals and hear the works of poets such as
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The cemetery is a place of remembrance for the Polish nation, of liberty and of the right to
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Skowronek, Jerzy; Bochenek, Alicja; Cichowski, Marek (1986). Filipow, Krzysztof (ed.).
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has been deposited there. In the 1960s, the cemetery became a place of resistance to
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Pro Polonicum – Polonijne pismo patriotyczne o polskich znakach pamięci na Obczyźnie
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in three stages between three neighbouring empires, the
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Cyprian Norwid
Montmorency, Val-d'Oise
France
Coordinates
48°59′38″N 2°19′25″E / 48.9940°N 2.3236°E / 48.9940; 2.3236
Roman Catholic
Montmorency, Val-d'Oise
Île-de-France
Polish
Paris
spa resort
Enghien-les-Bains
Polish diaspora
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Karol Kniaziewicz
Grande Armée
Adam Mickiewicz
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
WWII
Aleksander Kawalkowski

Delfina Potocka
Frederic Chopin

Zygmunt Kaczkowski
Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania
partitioned
Russian Empire

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