Author: KRAUSHAR Alexander
Title: Barss Palestrant Warszawski jego misya polityczna we Francyi (1793 - 1800)
- Place of publication: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1904
- Publisher: Jan Fiszer publishing house
- Number of pages: [6], 317, [1], IX, [1].
- Illustrations, maps: p. fn. 1
- Size: 18 cm
- Binding: hard cloth with gilt lettering on spine
- Condition: minor rubbing of binding
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Franciszek Barss (1760-1812) - Warsaw palestrant, publicist, translator and émigré diplomat.
Friend and associate of Tadeusz Kosciuszko. During the preparations for the Kosciuszko insurrection on September 10/11, 1793, he was appointed Tadeusz Kosciuszko's delegate (deputy) in Paris, and went there in January/February 1794. He was tasked, as a representative of the Supreme National Council, to obtain financial and political assistance from France. As a result of the revolutionary situation, Barss fails to achieve any results. All attempts to influence the revolutionary French government, including a personal letter to Robespierre, were unsuccessful.
As a member of the Agency (representing Polish emigrants in Milan at the same time), he agitated for the establishment of Polish legions in Paris - he was their later representative. In the summer of 1798 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who was returning from the USA, stayed with him, and initially succumbed to his influence, but by 1799 their political concepts had diverged. In 1802 Barss became a military commissar in the Italian republic in the service of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais. In 1812 he went with the Italian corps against Russia. He was in charge of food supplies for Napoleon's army. There he probably died during the retreat from Moscow.
