Historical and Literary Society
The Society on Paris' Ile Saint-Louis on extreme right
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| Formation | 1832 |
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| Type | Political and literary club with library |
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Membership
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400 |
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President
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C. Pierre Zaleski |
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Chairman of Trustees
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C. Pierre Zaleski |
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Co-Librarian
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W. Zahorski |
| Website | http://www.bibliotheque-polonaise-paris-shlp.fr/ |
The Historical and Literary Society, (Polish: Towarzystwo Historyczno-literackie, French: Société historique et littéraire polonaise - SHLP) a successor organisation to the Literary Society, was founded in Paris in 1832 as a Polish political and cultural association by a group that included Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's natural son and future minister of foreign affairs of Napoleon III. Its founding chairman was Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and from 1861, his son, Wladyslaw Czartoryski. The Society's original aim was "to collect and publicise materials relating to the former Kingdom of Poland, its current circumstances and future prospects, in the context of maintaining and encouraging in the opinion of nations the sympathy they have directed towards Poland. It found not only sympathy but support and practical assistance in the higher échelons of French society. It is co-owner of the Polish Library in Paris
The Society was called into being by the first wave of Polish émigrés fleeing the aftermath of the collapse of the November Uprising in partitioned Poland. The Society's charter was signed on 29 April 1832. Among its original founding members were Józef Bem, Teodor Morawski, Ludwik Plater, Andrzej Plichta, Jan Nepomucen Umiński. Among influential French supporters were the part Scots, Count Charles Forbes Montalembert, George Sand, Baroness Dudevant, Alfred de Vigny, Felicite de Lamennais and the Marquis de la Fayette.
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