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in France. Notable members include

Szymon Konarski Szymon Konarski (1808–1839) was a 19th-century Polish- Lithuanian radical democratic politician and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the November Uprising of 1831. As a politician, he supported the radical idea of social and economic ...

(1808-1839) who was involved in the group's founding. The group established cells in

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and

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In 1841, a faction was established in the region that is present-day

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. The leader of the

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cell was Aleksander Wężyk.Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3: The Jews of Warsaw. edited by Antony Polonsky. p. 114. The group was linked to the Southern Legion of the Republic of Poland which had, at its peak, around 600 soldiers. The military unit survived until 1848 and some of its soldiers crossed the border to join the

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