Background
Grzymała was born in Dunajowce in the Duchy of Warsaw (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine).
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Grzymała was born in Dunajowce in the Duchy of Warsaw (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine).
A freemason, and active in Polish politics during the 1820s, he was a principal orator at the funeral of Stanisław Staszic (1826). in 1828-1829 he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint St. Petersburg for his association with the Polish Towarzystwo Patriotyczne (Patriotic Society). As a director of the first Bank of Poland, he negotiated in London and Paris for financial and other support for Poland after the 1830 November Uprising. Grzymała remained in Paris and became a society figure.
He often acted as Chopin"s adviser and "gradually began to fill the role of elder brother in life." He was a frequent correspondent of both Chopin and of George Sand.
Sand, in a letter to Grzymała of June 1838, admitted her strong feelings for the composer and debated whether to abandon a current affair in order to begin a relationship with Chopin. Grzymała died, a bankrupt, in Nyon, Geneva, in 1871.