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1786-1818, Napoleon’s Polish mistress. The beautiful Marie Walewska (née Laczynska) was born in Warsaw on 7 December, 1786, into a family that had been ennobled in 1574. Her father, Mathieu Laczynski, who had fought heroically during the struggle for Polish independence, died prematurely, leaving his wife Eva to bring up their six young ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Maria Walewska (born Dec. 7, 1786, Brodno, Pol.—died Dec. 15, 1817, Paris, France) was a Polish countess and mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte, whom she met in Poland (1806) and followed to Paris and finally Elba. She sought to influence his eastern European policy and to move him to create the Duchy of Warsaw. On May 4, 1810, she bore him a son ...
Walewska, Marie (1786–1817) Polish noblewoman who became the mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte in order to promote the restoration of independence to her country . Name variations: Maria Walenska; Maria Walevska; Countess Valeska.
Feb 28, 2021 · Marie Walewska: The Woman Who Stole Napoleon's Heart. Napoleon and Marie’s affair, one of the most famous love stories of all time, influenced their destinies and possibly precipitated Napoleon...
Jul 25, 2023 · As Napoleon wintered in the city of Warsaw (where he began a famous affair with the young and beautiful Countess Marie Walewska), his miserable soldiers shivered in their cantonments along the Vistula. By early January 1807, supplies were running dangerously low for the French VI Corps under Marshal Michel Ney.
553: Marie Walewska, Napoleon’s Mistress. Born: 7 December 1786, Warsaw, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Present-day Warsaw, Poland) Died: 11 December 1817, Paris, France. Also Known As: Maria Walewska. Marie was a member of the aristocracy who married well when she was eighteen. She had a son with her husband, who was sixty-eight when they wed.
– Jean Savant, L’affaire Marie Walewska. Procès Ornano-Jean Savant, Paris: Floch Mayenne, 1963. – Christine Sutherland, Maria Walewska: Napoleon’s Great Love, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1979. Translated into French by Françoise de Bernardy, Marie Walewska: Le grand amour de Napoléon, Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1981.
