From the library of the Polish School in Batignolles

ŁUKASZEWSKI Xawery, MOSBACH August - Polish-English [and] German-Polish pocket dictionary for school and handy use according to the best sources worked out. Stereotype edition. Wrocław 1845. Nakł. Z. Schletter. 16d, p. [4], col. 748, p. [2]; p. [4]. Pp. 888. altogether bound in period fl.
Front pastedown taped at spine, small part of corner of first title page cut off, noticeable yellowing of paper in places. Trace of a sticker on the front pastedown. On the front cover gilt superexpress "Polish National School". Stamp and signature of the incl. Gerard Gronostajski (Gronostayski) (1795-1846) - former gymnasium professor in Vilnius, insurgent in the academic partisans, teacher in a school for Polish children in Orléans.
Polish National School - "a Polish high school established in 1842 in the Batignolles district of Paris [...] on the initiative of activists of the Polish émigré community there (the Scientific Aid Society, the Council of Founders of the Society for the National Education of Polish Children, the Association of Fathers of Polish Families in Exile) and on the personal initiative of General Józef Dwernicki. The venture was intended to transmit Polish national traditions to the children of emigrants during the November Uprising, most often born in France to mixed Polish-French families [...]. The Polish students followed the curriculum of the French school and, in addition, classes in Polish language and history. They also wore specific Polish uniforms - a copy of the uniform of the Warsaw National Guard from the period of the November Uprising with buttons with the Eagle and the Pogo and cornets" (Wikipedia). The school operated until 1922.