Walks around the city

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City Strolls - Marcella Motte's columnist series.

The cycle was published in the Journal of Poznań in 1888-1891 and was created after the retirement of Motte. It was written for the younger generation of the city's inhabitants - it was to make them aware of what 19th-century Poznań looked like, as well as famous figures working for the common good, such as Karol Marcinkowski, Karol Libelt, Edward Raczyński, Hipolit Cegielski, Tytus Działyński and Others (most of them knew personally). The convention is a joint walk of 70-year-old Motte with a young friend - a fictitious Mr. Ludwik, whom the author tells about the past of the city and its inhabitants. Motty thought that walking was one of the surest and most expensive hygienic measures to support and solidify old organisms. The author struggled with Germanization, while appreciating those Germans who characterized him with honesty and wisdom. He often emphasized his attachment to Polishness. The work was also Motte's idea to alleviate the pain of losing most of the loved ones by writing down their own memories. The passages give historians a very broad, accurate and visual image of the 19th century Poznan and contain very significant historical material, including places and details not described elsewhere.

Similar in tone, but more focused on current information, was the earlier Motte Cycle - Wojtusia's Letters from Zawad to Pafnusia, appearing in the same journal in the years 1865-1867.

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