“We should be well aware of the full importance of this day, because today, within the welcoming walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer, there meet not Frenchmen with Englishmen, not Russians with Poles, but people with people.”

— Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Address to the First World Congress of Esperanto, Bologne-sur-Mer, France. 5 August 1905.

Original

Ni konsciu bone la tutan gravecon de la hodiaŭa tago, ĉar hodiaŭ inter la gastamaj muroj de Bulonjo-sur-Maro kunvenis ne francoj kun angloj, ne rusoj kun poloj, sed homoj kun homoj.

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Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto 1859–1917

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