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xviii he had already served upwards of half a century, were to terminate only with his life. As a member of the Polish Literary Society at Paris, he delivered speeches, read his various works, and took part in the struggles of the press, on the affairs of Poland, in which that Society was engaged. Niemcewicz, always actively occupied with historical studies regarding his country, established at Paris an Historical Committee, which has already