[Nota o książce:] Emmanuel Desurvire, „Karol Edmund Chojecki, polski patriota, odkrywca, żołnierz, dramaturg, powieściopisarz, publicysta, bibliotekarz…”

This text is a complement to the presented a year ago in the translation into Polish, Jacques Chaplain’s review which is a fragmentary overview of the three volume monograph by a worldknown physicist Emmanuel Desurvire, devoted to his ancestor, Karol Edmund Chojecki (1822−1899). Source materials, meticulously collected by the French biographer — family archives and other documents that were not printed before — enable us to get to know closely this Polish emigrant of the era of Romanticism, known in France under the pseudonym Charles Edmond, inter alia of the side of various, closer or further relationships with the representatives of French culture, science and politics of that time (such as Gustave Flaubert, Georges Sand, Louis Blanc or Georges Clemenceau), as well as his own creative achievements (in the fields of playwriting, dramaturgy, publicism and art of translation) and their twentieth century reception. Desurvire’s work — of impressive size and substantive content — has been currently published for the second time. The second edition, revised and bearing indices is completed with the two-volume supplement.