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Zygmunt Krasiński

Died in 1859

Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859), born in Paris, the son of General Wincenty Krasiński, a commander of Napoleon's light horse who later rallied to the tsars, and godson of the emperor, studied law in Warsaw and then in Geneva, where he met Mickiewicz in 1830. His father forbade him to take part in the November uprising. Suffering from eye trouble since his youth, he travelled constantly in Italy, Switzerland and France, published his works without an author's name and left an immense correspondence. He died in Paris in 1859, four months after his father, and was buried at Opinogóra.

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