The Saxon Palace's Rift Speaks of Death, While Its Reconstruction Speaks of Rebirth. "And Perhaps the Capital Deserves Such a Change"

For the Saxons, it was supposed to be the Versailles of Warsaw. It was here that Chopin composed his first piece, the first stock exchange on the Vistula was opened, and Polish mathematicians cracked the Enigma code. The Saxon Palace, blown up 80 years ago, whose fate is so closely linked to the history of the country, is to rise from the ashes