She broke the glass ceiling. Maria Skłodowska-Curie was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne and the only woman to receive the Nobel Prize twice. The price of her scientific achievements was huge – permanent insomnia, unbearable pain in her muscles and joints, and weight loss. by Jan Hlebowicz Maria Skłodowska came from a…
In the spring of 1871, when Adolphe Thiers’ government fled to Versailles and the capital was engulfed in the flames of revolution, between four and six hundred Polish émigrés volunteered to fight under the red banner. Most of them had already experienced the smell of gunpowder, so they became the elite of the communard army…
Olga Boznańska is one of the most important artists of the 19th and early 20th Century, famous for her original style and boundless devotion to art. She was born in Krakow, the daughter of engineer Adam Boznański, Nowina coat of arms, and Eugénie Mondan, of French origin, on 15 April 1865 and died in Paris,…
The year 2021 was announced by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland as the Year of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The year 2022 is, in turn, the Year of Polish Romanticism. Both of these facts became a pretext to find mainly Polish and Parisian ‘places of Norwid’ and an attempt to answer the question: what…
