[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

Histoire de Paris

Adam Mickiewicz, le poète exilé
Né en 1798, dans une famille de petite noblesse ruinée de Lituanie, il étudie à Vilno, creuset révolutionnaire, et participe à la fondation d’une société secrète, les Philomathes, dont il préside la section littéraire. Ses conférences et ses poëmes lui assurent très jeune la célébrité, mais lui valent aussi d’être déporté en Russie par la police du tsar. En 1829, Mickiewicz part pour l’Allemagne et y publie le "Livre de la nation polonaise" et le "Livre des pèlerins polonais", avant de venir s’installer à Paris: il rédige ici son chef-d’œuvre "Pan Tadeusz". Chargé de cours au Collège de France en 1840 dans la chaire de Langues et littératures slaves, il est révoqué en même temps que Michelet et Quinet. Après une tentative infructueuse de lever une légion polonaise pour combattre avec les républicains italiens en 1848, il fonde une "Tribune des peuples" destinée à être l’organe des émigrés en France. Cet éternel errant contracte au cours d’une expédition en Turquie le choléra qui l’emporte en 1855.

One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.

The sign is dedicated to the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (1855-1798), one of Poland’s greatest poets, who was also the leader of the Polish immigrants who stayed in Paris.
The sign is near the house where he lived in 1834.

The place was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

On the wall of the house where the poet lived there is a sign indicating this fact Click for sign's details

Translation of the text on the sign:

[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

History of Paris

Adam Mickiewicz, the exiled poet
Born in 1798, into a family of ruined minor nobility in Lithuania, he studied in Vilno, a revolutionary crucible, and participated in the founding of a secret society, the Philomathes, of which he chaired the literary section. His lectures and poems brought him fame at a very young age, but also led to his being deported to Russia by the Tsar’s police. In 1829, Mickiewicz left for Germany and published the "Book of the Polish Nation" and the "Book of Polish Pilgrims", before settling in Paris: here he wrote his masterpiece "Pan Tadeusz ". Lecturer at the Collège de France in 1840 in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures, he was dismissed at the same time as Michelet and Quinet. After an unsuccessful attempt to raise a Polish legion to fight with the Italian Republicans in 1848, he founded a "Tribune of Peoples" intended to be the organ of émigrés in France. This eternal wanderer contracted cholera during an expedition to Turkey, which killed him in 1855.