Hôtel Lambert
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Hôtel Lambert is a palace on Île Saint-Louis in Paris and the name of a Polish political fraction.
It was designed by the architect Louis Le Vau, and built between 1640 and 1644. It was bought by the Czartoryskis in 1843 of a liberal-aristocratic fraction of the Polish Great Emigration, which came into being after the collapse of the November Uprising 1830‑1831 in Poland and was headed by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
The political beliefs of Hotel Lambert lean on the May 3rd Constitution. He played an important part in keeping the "Polish question" alive in European politics. He was the Court to all Polish Royalists. He also creates many institutions, like a Polish Library, Historical Society, and Institute for Young Ladies, and a School for Young Men. It becomes the greatest center of Polish Life both Political, Cultural, and Social outside Poland. Some of its famous patrons were Fryderyk Chopin, Zygmunt Krasinski, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt. Chopin composes the "La Polonaise" for the Polish ball held yearly. Only the Library survives to this day.
The activists connected with the "Hôtel Lambert" included:
- Stanisław Barzynkowski
- Józef Bem
- Ludwik Bystrzonowski
- Wojciech Chrzanowski
- Michał Czajkowski (Sadyk Pasha)
- Wladyslaw Czartoryski
- Henryk Dembinski
- Walerian Kalinka
- Julian Klaczko
- Karol Kniaziewicz
- Gustaw Malachowski
- Teodor Morawski
- Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
- Ludwik Plater
- Karol Sienkiewicz
- Janusz Woronicz
- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Zamoyski
- Ludwik Zwierkowski
- Wladyslaw Ostrowski
See also
- Great Emigration (Wielka Emigracja)
- Union of National Unity (Związek Jedności Narodowej)
- Monarchist Society of the Third May (Towarzystwo Monarchistyczne Trzeciego Maja)pl:Hotel Lambert
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