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On 2 July 1895, Prus wrote his wife, describing his first impression of the town: "Rapperswil is a village, but built of brick like our cities, and has at nearly every house a little garden, like our
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Fäh. When Prus visited them for two months in July–August 1895, Oktawia Żeromska rented a room for him on the building's second floor. Thus, for a time, two of Poland's greatest novelists lived at this one address in
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Professor Julian
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303:L ChodĹşko
280:eccentric
135:free city
131:Habsburgs
947:Archived
929:14 April
708:See also
683:Visitors
543:Eviction
346:Poland.
97:Founding
959:Sources
510:Burghof
506:library
387:during
381:Germans
349:During
276:curator
240:Russian
30:Schloss
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907:2 July
703:(2007)
697:(1915)
691:(1895)
471:, 1881
467:), by
431:France
400:Warsaw
385:Warsaw
296:Kielce
84:Poland
74:Count
72:Polish
34:Castle
725:Notes
269:Pogoń
264:Vytis
244:Latin
970:ISBN
931:2023
909:2022
579:Sejm
528:and
288:Cisy
238:but
209:Frau
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224:Bar
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