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Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki

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Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki

Birth
Lublin, Miasto Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
Death
1 Dec 1899 (aged 77)
City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Burial
Meudon, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France Add to Map
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He was a Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator. Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond.

Early on, Chojecki participated in leftist intellectual and political movements and edited Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz's political weekly magazine La Tribune des Peuples (The Peoples' Tribune). In time he entered elite Parisian learned and literary circles, became secretary to Emperor Napoleon III, and co-founded the Paris daily Le Temps, predecessor to Le Monde.

Chojecki wrote a notable Polish-language novel, Alkhadar (1854) and translated into Polish (1847) Jan Potocki's celebrated novel, The Saragossa Manuscript.

He was a Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator. Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond.

Early on, Chojecki participated in leftist intellectual and political movements and edited Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz's political weekly magazine La Tribune des Peuples (The Peoples' Tribune). In time he entered elite Parisian learned and literary circles, became secretary to Emperor Napoleon III, and co-founded the Paris daily Le Temps, predecessor to Le Monde.

Chojecki wrote a notable Polish-language novel, Alkhadar (1854) and translated into Polish (1847) Jan Potocki's celebrated novel, The Saragossa Manuscript.


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