"The Myth of Napoleon" and the Polish democratic emigration of the nineteenth century
Keywords:
Napoleon and the Polish liberation movement, Polish democratic emigration, exposing the “Napoleon myth”Abstract
In the nineteenth-century Poland «the myth of Napoleon» was born. However, all hopes for his help in the restoration of the Polish state were in vain. Democratic leaders of the Polish emigration, formed after the uprising of 1830, were unveiling Napoleon’s true intentions towards the Poles, and thus denounced this myth.
