Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.
Wilhelm Albert Wodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was born in Rome, Italy, and was raised speaking French, Italian, and Polish. He emigrated to France in his late teens and adopted the name Guillaume Apollinaire. His mother, born Angelika Kostrowicka, was a Polish noblewoman born near Navahrudak, Grodno Governorate . His maternal grandfather was a general in the Russian Imperial Army who was killed in the Crimean War. Apollinaires father is unknown but may have been Francesco Costantino Camillo Flugi dAspermont , a Graubnden aristocrat who disappeared early from Apollinaires life. Francesco Flugi von Aspermont was a descendant of Conradin Flugi dAspermont a poet who wrote in ladin puter , and perhaps also of the Minnesnger Oswald von Wolkenstein .
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