Polish School at Batignolles in Paris

The author of this review – Fasing on the reference material coooected In France – hes revealed the Genesis and the first years of the Polish School in France activities. The Na-tional Polish School, as it was called at the beginning, was established by the soldiers of the November Insurrection of 1830. After the defeat of the Insurrection, the soldiers settled in France. Joseph Dwernicki initiated the estblishing of the School. The act of estblishing the „Fathers of Polish Families in Exile” was drawn in his Home. Soon after that the programme of the School was published as well as the appeal titled „The Society for the National Educa-tion of the Children of Polish Exiles”. The School was officially opened in October 1842 in the Town of Catillon-sous-Baneux, a suburb of Paris. After a year, owing to the increasing number of candidates and the help of the Polish-French Committee established by Gen. Lafaytte, the School was moped to Paris, to the Wolkers district of Batignolles, where a lot of emigrants live. Wherever it was situated it represented the country of the Poles. Here one could hear the Polish language, the youth was taught the history of Poland, Polish poetry was recited. The Polish School in Paris was linked with the Frech land and nation, shared its Bad and good fates, assisted the nation in its battles for freedom and Progress. The distin-guished positions on the tist of Sorbone rewards, Prince Napoleons’ medals were proof of the achievements in science – the love for the Country – both Polish and French- was mani-fiested in the honorary inscriptions in the periods of peace the heroic impulses to struggle for peace in the lists of these who had lost their lives in defending their country