Article recalling Polish graves in, among others, the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Mention is made of the graves of, among others, the November insurgents, the grave of F. Chopin, as well as the doctor Dr. Gałęzowski, General Wróblewski, Mrs. Walewska et al. Other cemeteries are also mentioned, including Montmartre with its "avenue des Polonais", or avenue of Poles (Source: "Dziennik Polski", Czeski Cieszyn 1937, R: 4, no. 250, p. 4, after: Silesian Digital Library).

A modernised reading of the text

Polish graves on French soil.

A moment's glimpse into the past - and what a content the feast of the dead acquires for a Pole in Paris... Among the cemeteries in Paris, there are Polish graves in five of them: in Père-Lachaise, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Bagneux, Juvisy and Montmorency. In the largest cemetery in Paris - Père-Lachaise - there are about 70 Polish graves, including one mass grave. In the collective lies 20 November insurgents. The most sacred of Polish graves here is that of Frédéric Chopin, with a monument chiseled by Clésinger depicting a weeping Muse and with a medallion showing the face in profile of the brilliant master of tones.

This monument was erected in 1850. The most beautiful of all the graves in this cemetery is that of the November insurgent and physician Dr Gałęzowski, with a monument chiseled by Cyprian Godebski, depicting an angel showering flowers. Here, Klementyna Hoffmanowa, née Tańska Hoffmanowa, has a monument with a bust and children hugging her. Further lies here: Belvedere major Nabielak, Mrs Hańska (together with her husband Balzac), Mrs Walewska, Gen.

Wróblewski, hero of the Paris Commune, and many November and January warriors. In the Montmartre cemetery, one of whose avenues is called "Avenue des Polonais" (Avenue of Poles), there are about 60 Polish graves, including 9 mass graves - the last resting place of November heroes. The cemetery once contained the tomb of Juliusz Słowacki, where his remains rested until 1927, when they finally found their way to the heart of their homeland - the Wawel Castle. Here lies the 'Ukrainian lyricist' Bohdan Zaleski, on whose tomb we read a two-line poem:

My God - with my tears I pray Thee:
as I die - give me Ukraine in heaven!
And the following stanza:
The spirit will not be extinguished by dying,
and for the earth at the grave
a few feathers will remain,
which raised me to heaven.
On one of the mass graves an inscription:
Today a grave in someone else's land is shared with others.
There is a beautiful monument to Mieczysław Kamieński, who fell at Magenta. The inscription on this tomb reads:
Accept, Lord, toil, toil and our lives in sacrifice,
and expressive words:
Farewell to dreams, illusions and youthful ambitions!
Joachim Lelewel found his final resting place in a grave shared with several November heroes - and on the grave the inscriptions:
Stoczek - Dobre - Grochów - Wawer - Dęby Wielkie - Ostrołęka - Rajgród - Międzyrzecz - Warsaw.
In the Montparnasse cemetery we find about 90 Polish graves. Lying here is Henryka Pustowójtówna - as the inscription says - "full of energy and devotion at home and in exile, on the battlefield and in her family". The great tomb of the Belvedere carries Konopnicka's phrase:
Graves ye our, native graves,
ye graves full of life!
Ye not an altar of vain mourning,
but a fortress of strength!
Here we find the tomb of General Mierosławski with the beautiful bust of this warrior and historian of the November Uprising, a monument to General Lipowski, the hero from under Châteaudun in 1870, erected by France in honour of the Polish commander of the French, and a monument to General Chełmicki's daughter, Maria, with a naively beautiful inscription:
'Here, on the banks of the Seine,
away from Poland beloved,
an extinguished rose, a violet,
a drop of dew, an angel.'".

The Passy cemetery has 4 graves, Auteuil has 9. There are further Polish graves in five cemeteries scattered around the world. In the Neuilly cemetery there are 7, including that of the philosopher Hoene-Wroński. There are 28 Polish graves on the Larz in Montrouge, 5 in Bagneux, and in Juvisy, Jan Nepomucen Janowski, founder of the Benevolent Society.

And finally, Montmorency is home to around 100 graves of Poles, among them the most venerated was the tomb of the Mickiewicz family, from which Adam Mickiewicz's coffin was taken in 1890 to be deposited in the country. In the Montmorencyjski church there is a splendid monument to Kniazie and Niemcewicz by Oleszczyński, depicting the figures of these two great Poles and an angel guarding them.