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Wacław Hański (1782–1841) was a Polish noble ( Korczak coat of arms ), landowner, marszałek of the nobility in the Volhynian Governorate. He was the first husband of Ewelina Hańska .
Wacław Hański herbu Korczak (ur. 5 marca 1782, zm. 10 listopada 1841) – marszałek szlachty wołyńskiej w latach 1811-1814, kawaler maltański (w zakonie od 1806 roku), kawaler Honoru i Dewocji w Wielkim Przeoracie Katolickim w Rosji, pierwszy mąż Eweliny Hańskiej (z Rzewuskich), znanej jako inspiracja i żona Balzaka.
- Family and Early Life
- Marriage to Hański
- Becoming "The Stranger"
- Meeting Balzac
- Hański's Death
- Second Marriage and Widowhood
- Later Years and Death
Hańska was the fourth of seven children born to Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski and his wife, Justyna Rzewuska (née Rdułtowska). Their family was established as Polish nobility, known for wealth and military prowess. One ancestor had imprisoned his own mother in a tower to extract his part of an inheritance. Hańska's great-grandfather, Wacław Rzewuski, wa...
In 1819 Eveline married Wacław Hański, a noble who lived nearby at Verhivnya (Wierzchownia). Their marriage was a union of wealthy families, not of passion. His estate covered 21,000 acres (85 km2) and owned over 3,000 serfs, including 300 domestic servants. The manor had been designed by a French architect, and its owner filled it with luxuries fr...
One of the writers who most enchanted Hańska was the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. After laboring in pseudonymous obscurity for ten years, Balzac published Les Chouans (The Chouans) in 1829. A tale of star-crossed love amidst a royalist uprising in Brittany, it was the first work to which he signed his own name. Hańska was intrigued by the glow...
In September 1833, after traveling to the French city of Besançon to find cheap paper for a publishing enterprise, Balzac crossed into Switzerland and registered at the Hôtel du Faucon under the name Marquis d'Entragues. He sent word to Hańska that he would visit the garden of the Maison Andrié, where she and her family were staying. He looked up a...
Hański died in November 1841. She sent Balzac a letter, sealed in black, with the news. He instantly wrote back: "je n'en aurais peut-être pas voulu recevoir d'autre de vous, malgré ce que vous me dites de triste sur vous et votre santé" ("I could not perhaps wish to have received any other [news] from you, in spite of the sad things you tell me ab...
Hańska and Balzac were determined, however, and in 1845 she visited him in Paris with Anna and Jerzy. In April of the following year they visited Italy; Balzac joined them for a tour of Rome, and they proceeded to Geneva. Soon after he returned to Paris, she wrote with the news that she was pregnant. Balzac was overjoyed, certain that they would ha...
Hańska lived with Balzac's mother for a time after his death, in the house he had spent so much time and expense furnishing. The elder Mme. Balzac moved in with a friend after several months, and Hańska approached the remains of her late husband's writing. Several works had been left incomplete, and publishers inquired about releasing a final editi...
Wacław Hański (1782–1841) was a Polish noble ( Korczak coat of arms ), landowner, marszałek of the nobility in the Volhynian Governorate. He was the first husband of Ewelina Hańska.
Apr 14, 2023 · Eveline Haska, a Polish noblewoman who lived from 6 January (about 1805) until 11 April (1882), is mainly remembered for her union with French author Honoré de Balzac. Haska married landowner Wacaw Haski while she was just an adolescent.
“A happy wild-boar,” was how one friend described him, and his ever good humour and infectious enthusiasm for life soon swept the young lady from Ukraine completely away. They vowed eternal love and met again the next December in Geneva where they became lovers. But Ewelina’s husband, Wacław Hański, was a problem.
The following book is a collection of letter-based correspondence between Ewelina Rzewuska and Honoré de Balzac before their marriage. She married landowner Wacław Hański when she was a teenager....
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