Jan Potocki
✶March 8, 1761
†January 1, 1815
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✶March 8, 1761
†January 1, 1815
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Count Jan Potocki was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
Polish nobleman, writer (creating in French), traveler, politician and historian (1761-1815)
Biography from the article Jan Potocki on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.