Polish Constitution Day

May 3

May 3, known in Poland as Swieto Trzeciego Maja, is a patriotic legal holiday honoring the nation's first constitution, adopted in 1791. It introduced fundamental changes in the way Poland was governed, based on the ideas of the French Revolution, and represented an attempt to preserve the country's independence. Although the May 3rd Constitution (as it was called) represented a great advance for the Polish people, it also aroused the anxieties of neighboring countries and eventually led to the Second Partition two years later.

CONTACTS:
Embassy of The Republic of Poland
2640 16th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
202-234-3800; fax: 202-328-6271
www.washington.polemb.net

SOURCES:
AnnivHol-2000, p. 76
BkFest-1937, p. 261

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Polish Constitution Day 10:30-11:30 a.m., entertainment with Polka Paul; Polish-themed lunch, noon.

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The photographs range from intimate portraits of three generations of the Sekula family (who claim Polish heritage) to more impersonal studies of people captured in public settings: veterans at a Polish Constitution Day parade; a mother and child at a Polish food festival; and former boatbuilders at the famous Gdansk shipyards, birthplace of Solidarity.

Allan Sekula: THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

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