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Tadeusz Reytan (or Tadeusz Rejtan rarely Reyten; 20 August 1742 – 8 August 1780) was a Polish nobleman. He was a member of the Polish Sejm from the constituency of Nowogródek (today Navahrudak Belarus). Rejtan is remembered for a dramatic gesture he made in September 1773 as a deputy of the Partition Sejm. There Rejtan tried to prevent the legalization of the first partition of Poland a scene that has been immortalized in one of the paintings of Jan Matejko.

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