 Lelewel greatly influenced him, but he clashed with the Polish nationalists over their demand for a historic Poland based on the borders of 1776 (before the Partitions of Poland) as he defended the right of autonomy for the non-Polish peoples in these territories.He also did not support their clericalism and they did not support his calls for the emancipation of the peasantry.In 1844, Bakunin went to Paris, then a centre of the European political current.