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In her 4 works published betwen 2011 and 2017, the Belgian writer Nathalie Skowronek recounts the saga of her family : Jewish Poles who had to flee their country between the two World Wars, to take refuge in Belgium where they successfully trade in the clothing business. A family strongly scarred by the Shoah Tragedy but offering two different faces : glowing and obscure. A family that tailored a specific world for the author even if she finds it boring and will succeed in escaping through her writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The paper analyses a list of thirty-four Poles, listeners to the mineralogy lectures given by R.-J. Haüy at MNHN in Paris. These students played an important role in the history of Polish Earth Sciences (S. Staszic and F. Drzewiński), but also in other scientific fields (J. Markowski, I. Abłamowicz, F. Drzewiński, M.A. Pawłowicz, J.K. Skrodzki, E.K. Nowicki), and even in political and cultural life of Poland (A. Downarowicz, J. Weyssenhoff, S. Plater, J. Bieliński, F. Potocki). This paper presents later relations between R.-J. Haüy and his Polish students. A possibility of the Poles'' attendance to mineralogy lectures given at other Parisian scientific institutions, like the ‘École des mines’ and the ‘College de France’, is also discussed. To cite this article: R. Tarkowski, P. Daszkiewicz, C. R. Geoscience 338 (2006). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]