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Walewski

ALEXANDRE FLO- RIAN JOSEPH COLONNA, DUKE DE, a French statesman; born in Walewice, Poland, May 4, 1810; was educated at Geneva, and entered the Polish patriot army, but later retired and devoted himself to literature. He wrote: "A Word on the Question of Algiers" (1837); "The English Alliance" (1838); patriot a comedy, "The School of the World; or, The Coquette Without Knowing It" (1840). He died in Strassburg, Sept. 27, 1868.

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