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Housed within the building are murals and paintings by
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for it to be their legation's permanent seat in Paris. Since then the palace has served continuously as the home to the Polish ambassador and his staff, interrupted only for the duration of the Second World War when it became a German cultural office. For a brief period in 1939-1940 it was even the
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