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Frédéric Chopin: the Great Polish Emigration
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3. Frédéric Chopin: the Great Polish Emigration
Chopin elected, perhaps wisely, to emigrate from his native Poland just before November Uprising of 1830, and settled in Paris aged 20. Here we can see a statue erected to honour him in Warsaw, Poland.
