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4 unusual facts about Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz


Garlic ice cream

In accordance with a stereotype that Jews tend to add garlic to most of their food, a novel by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz depicted Polish Jews eating garlic ice cream.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

His novel, John of Tenczyn (1825), written in the style of Sir Walter Scott, gives a vigorous picture of old Poland.

He was subsequently a founder of the Friends of the Constitution, formed to support the implementation of that progressive document.

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial

Instructed to find "a dwelling as small, as remote, and as cheap" as possible, Kosciuszko's secretary, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, chose Mrs. Ann Relf's boarding house in Society Hill (on the corner of 3rd and Pine Streets).



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